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Genres in Discourse

Genres in Discourse

Hardcover

Series: Literature, Culture, Theory

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 052134249X
ISBN13: 9780521342490
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 28 1990
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and asks such questions as: What is literature? What is genre? Which are the major literary genres? In the first section, Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse, and genre. Following is a general discussion of the two principal literary genres, fiction and poetry. Finally, in the third section of essays, Todorov examines individual authors as case studies: among them Poe, Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, Conrad, and James.

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