Taking Up Space: On Genre Systems as Geographies of the Possible

Abstract

1 his essay has three tasks, the first of which is to situate genre theorists' growing interest in uptake (i.e., readers' and writers' enactment of acquired dispositions toward recurrent textual forms) in the larger spa tial turn in composition studies. I read Charles Bazerman's description of the moment in which we are caught up in the recognition of a genre as a particularly vivid description of uptake: