Interview of literary writers, researchers and critics explores new horizons in language and literature. With the passage of time it includes biographies, literary discussions and ideas.
Muhammad Farooq
If it hasn’t yet, it is no less worthy of becoming one than any other established genre. Having said this, I have to add that Interviews are often subjected to conversational analyses and hence, it is a sub-genre proper.
Interviews are not to be classed as literary genres but they are useful research techniques. For example, a researcher treating the works of a particular author/ literary artist can, from the interview granted by such writer, gather relevant materials to help him /her in analysis. This is particularly useful where the researcher is utilising the sociological approach or the traditional method of criticism. Data from interviews are reliable and help the researcher beef up and confirm or reject certain findings of the research.
Correcting my million typos; I should not type in a dark room. :) The artist Andy Warhol started a magazine, Andy Warhol’s Interview, in 1969. It is still being published. A study of that magazine alone could go a long way to considering whether it is a genre. It is historically very brash, with the interviewer playing a far more active role than is typical for standard interviews. Other literary journals have also refined the art of interviewing, such as The Paris Review and Conjunctions. I think it is topic well worth exploring whether or not the art is “canonized” as a genre.
اظن بحسب نوع المقابلة اذا كانت تتضمن وجات نظر واراء ادبية تعمتد وان كانت مقابلة تعريفية او نوع من انواع الظهور لاتعتمد
Translation into English for Prof. Amani Harith: "I would like to work on a research project for the critic Khaleda Saeed. Whoever has resources or would like to work with me on this project, I would be grateful for his help."
As an amateur I would like to know what constitutes a hybrid genre. Is it like Tom Wolfe's or Norman Mailer's journalism which had narrative aspects of fiction even though it was non-fiction (the "New Journalism?" Another example: Ken Kesey's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wolfgang F. Schwarz
Excellent and helpful. Then would that not be true of the Iliad and the Odyssey as to mixed features of oral interaction and written or edited communication? Or the work of Alan Lomax in the USA?
@Wolfgang Schwarz
Of course that form’s dialectic is similar in some dacets to the form used in call-and-response music in a more rhythmic or poetic manner and in Catechism in a more prosaic manner.
Yes, I do believe that personal interviews can be classified as another genre because they provide special insight into certain subjects, especially regarding wars that have divided our country. This is applicable to the Vietnam War and veterans who have returned home and given talks, speeches, and interviews about the war. I have had Vietnam veterans to come to my class and give talks about their experiences, and my students asked questions which the veterans answered expertly. So, yes, personal interviews can be used and cited in students' essays.
The fact that students and researchers can make references to a personal interview is not enough to qualify the interview as a literary genre. That is equating it with literary genres like the novel, the play, poetry, short story, etc. No. One can draw references from a personal interview just as one can do same from a newspaper report or a non literary text. The personal interview is at best a research technique or tool but not a literary genre.
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