Book: Genres In Discourse 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.
Details of Book: Genres In Discourse Book: Genres In Discourse
Author: Tzvetan Todorov, Catherine Porter
ISBN: 052134249X
ISBN-13: 9780521342490
, 978-0521342490
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 148
Language: English