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Genres in Discourse

Genres in Discourse

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521342490
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 801.4
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 148
Weight: 345g
Height: 235mm
Width: 157mm
Spine width: 17mm