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Genres in discourse

Paperback • 1990 • English

Genres in discourse

By Tzvetan Todorov

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About the book

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 fina...Show more

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ISBN

9780521342490

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Published year

1990

Language

English

Original title

Genres in discourse

Format

Paperback

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