Modern Genre Theory

Criticism of the theory of artistic and literary kinds, Benedetto Croce the literary fact, Yury Tynyanov fairy tale transformations, Vladimir Propp epic and novel - toward a methodology for the study of the novel, Mikhail Bakhtin the problem of speech genres, Mikhail Bakhtin the mythos of summer - romance royal genres, Ireneusz Opacki theory of bgenres and mediaeval literature, Hans Robert Jauss genre-systems and the functions of literature, Rosalie Colie magical narratives - on the dialectical use of genre criticism, Frederic Jameson the roigin of genres, Tzvetan Todorov the architext, Gerard Genette the law of genre, Jacques Derrida transformations of genre, Alistair Fowler genre and gender, Mary Eagleton.