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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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• Prefatory Note(p. vii)
• Part 1
• 1. The Notion of Literature(p. 1)
• 2. The Origin of Genres(p. 13)
• Part 2
• 3. The Two Principles of Narrative(p. 27)
• 4. Reading as Construction(p. 39)
• 5. A Poetic Novel(p. 50)
• 6. Poetry without Verse(p. 60)
• Part 3
• 7. Notes from the Underground(p. 72)
• 8. The Limits of Edgar Poe(p. 93)
• 9. Heart of Darkness(p. 103)
• 10. The Awkward Age(p. 113)
• Index(p. 129)

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Tzvetan Todorov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 1, 1939. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Sofia and then moved to France to pursue postgraduate work. He completed his doctorate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1966 and he began teaching at the National Center for Scientific Research in 1968. In 1983, he helped found the Center for Arts and Language Research, involving scholars from both institutions.

He was a literary theorist and historian. He wrote numerous books including The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other, On Human Diversity, Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, A French Tragedy: Scenes of Civil War Summer 1944, The New World Disorder: Reflections of a European, and Fear of the Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations. He died of multiple system atrophy, a progressive brain disorder, on February 7, 2017 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)