Prospects of Power: Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre" Genre the articulation of "kind" is one of the oldest and most continuous subjects of theoretical and critical commentary. Yet from Romanticism to postmodernism, the concept of genre has been punched with so many holes that today it hardly seems graspable. By combining theory with literary histories of three significantly different genres tragedy, satire, and the essay John Snyder reconstructs genre as the figural deployment of symbolic power. One