Title:
Modern genre theory / edited and introduced by David Duff.
Main Entry:
Duff, David, 1962-
Publisher:
Longman,
Publication Date:
2000
Publication Place:
Harlow, England ; New York :
ISBN:
0582368065
0582368057 (pbk.)
Subject:
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Literary form.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Preface vi -- Acknowledgements viii -- Key Concepts x -- Introduction 1 -- 1 BENEDETTO CROCE Criticism of the Theory of Artistic and -- Literary Kinds 25 -- 2 YURY TYNYANOV The Literary Fact 29 -- 3 VLADIMIR PROPP Fairy Tale Transformations 50 -- 4 MIKHAIL BAKHTIN Epic and Novel: Toward a -- Methodology for the Study of the Novel 68 -- 5 MIKHAIL BAKHTIN The Problem of Speech Genres 82 -- 6 NORTHROP FRYE The Mythos of Summer: Romance 98 -- 7 IRENEUSZ OPACKI Royal Genres 118 -- 8 HANS ROBERT JAUSS Theory of Genres and Medieval -- Literature 127 -- 9 ROSALIE COLIE Genre-Systems and the Functions of -- Literature 148 -- 10 FREDRIC JAMESON Magical Narratives: On the Dialectical -- Use of Genre Criticism 167 -- 11 TZVETAN TODOROV The Origin of Genres 193 -- 12 GERARD GENETTE The Architext 210 -- 13 JACQUES DERRIDA The Law of Genre 219 -- 14 ALASTAIR FOWLER Transformations of Genre 232 -- 15 MARY EAGLETON Genre and Gender 250 -- Notes on Authors 263 -- Further Reading 267 -- Index 279.
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