Cinnabar and Alabaster

passages
146. "the concept of genre is an economical way of acknowledging the interdependence of purpose, lines of argument, stylistic choices, and requirements arising from the situation and the audience. genres are not only dynamic responses to circumstances; each is a dynamis--a potential fusion of elements that may be energized or actualized as a strategic response to a situation"
(& here's that talking-about-themselves-as-particular-configurations thing again: in the 3rd person Jamieson & Campbell write about "Campbell and Jamieson"—does that mean something different to them, or is it just a way of telling the reader how to find the piece?)
147. claims: "1) such fusion is rule goverened; and 2) identification of different generic elements and occasionally of whole genres within such acts allows the critic to understand how such acts work, and to predict their appearance"
150. addn'l characteristics: "fusions are not invariably successful" & "hybrids are called forth by complex situations and purposes and, as such, are transitory and situation-bound"
154-5. after an evaluation of a particular vice-presidential response to assuming the title under complex circumstances: "because the hybrid just analyzed occurs infrequently and under variable circumstances, the combination has not created strong audience expectations for speeches delivered by ascendent vice presidents or altered the expectations we bring to eulogistic occasions or rites of investiture"; 2 "possible exceptions to the principles governing organic fusions": "1) hybrids whose fusion is sustained by a recurrent situation, such as presidential inaugurals that combine constant epideictic elements" & "2)hybrids whose fusion is sustained by an institution such as the papacy, illustrated by encyclicals that fuse the elements of the apostolic letter with those of the roman imperial degree"
156. in case 2, "the longevity of the hybrid may make it difficult for us to perceive elements borrowed from different genres" (so @ that point what makes them hybrids & not new genres?) "the generic critic is constantly battling the inclination to minimize the idiosyncrasies and magnify the commonalities"
157. "generic analysis enables us to appreciate the idiosyncracies as well as the recurrent, to recognize the appropriate and sensitive response to a complex situation"; "the rhetorical hybrid represents a fusion of elements that, however transitory, stands as a potential kind of response to situations that future rhetors perceive in similar ways"; "without a generic perspective a critic would be less likely to perceive the recurrent elements as recurrent or the variable elements as an extension of the recurrent core"