Preface  Key Concepts  Introduction  1. Benedetto Croce Criticism of the Theory of Artistic and Literary Kinds  2. Yury Tynyanov The Literary Fact  3. Vladimir Propp Fairy Tale Transformations  4. Mikhail Bakhtin Epic and Novel : Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel  5. Mikhail Bakhtin The Problem of Speech Genres  6. Northrop Frye The Mythos of Summer : Romance  7. Ireneusz Opacki Royal Genres  8. Hans Robert Jauss Theory of Genres and Medieval Literature  9. Rosalie Colie Genre-Systems and the Functions of Literature  10. Fredric Jameson Magical Narratives : On the Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism  11. Tzvetan Todorov The Origin of Genres
12. Gerard Genette The Architext  13. Jacques Derrida The Law of Genre  14. Alastair Fowler Transformations of Genre  15. Mary Eagleton Genre and Gender  Notes on Authors  Further Reading  Index