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Genres in Discourse

Genres in Discourse

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  • Date Published: November 1990
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521349994

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  • 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 ask 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. In the final section, Todorov examines individual authors as case studies: among them Poe, Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, Conrad, and James.

    • Tightly focused essays by one of the most eminent of today's theorists
    • Key reading for students on courses of literary theory (i.e. what Falck is attacking in Myth, Truth and Literature)
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    • Date Published: November 1990
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521349994
    • length: 148 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 153 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.211kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Prefatory note
    Part I:
    1. The notions of literature
    2. The origin of genres
    Part II:
    3. The two principles of narrative
    4. Reading as construction
    5. A poetic novel
    6. Poetry without verse
    Part III:
    7. Notes from the Underground
    8. The limits of Edgar Poe
    9. Heart of Darkness
    10. The Awkward Age
    Index.

  • Author

    Tzvetan Todorov

    Translator

    Catherine Porter

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