Genre (Paperback)

Introduction  1 Approaching genre  Preliminary questions  The situation of genre  The performance of genre Classes and members  2 Simple and complex genres  Simple forms: the riddle  Generic complexity  Citation and intertextuality  3 Literary genre theory  Genre as taxonomy  Presentational modes: Plato and Aristotle  The natural forms  Genres and modes  Poetics and history  4 Implication and relevance  The structural dimensions of genre  Implication and presupposition  Genre as schema  Generic truths: Philosophy  Generic truths: History  5 Genre and interpretation  Reading genre  The frame  Generic cues  Figures of genre  6 System and history  Genre systems  Synchrony and diachrony  Genrification  Emergent Genres  Teaching genre