Genres in Discourse
- Author: Tzvetan Todorov
- Translator: Catherine Porter
- Date Published: November 1990
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- 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.
Read more- 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.
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