Machine generated contents note: Preface vi -- Acknowledgements viii -- Key Concepts x -- Introduction 1 -- 1 BENEDETTO CROCE Criticism of the Theory of Artistic and Literary Kinds 25 -- 2 YURY TYNYANOV The Literary Fact 29 -- 3 VLADIMIR PROPP Fairy Tale Transformations 50 -- 4 MIKHAIL BAKHTIN Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel 68 -- 5 MIKHAIL BAKHTIN The Problem of Speech Genres 82 -- 6 NORTHROP FRYE The Mythos of Summer: Romance 98 -- 7 IRENEUSZ OPACKI Royal Genres 118 -- 8 HANS ROBERT JAUSS Theory of Genres and Medieval Literature 127 -- 9 ROSALIE COLIE Genre-Systems and the Functions of Literature 148 -- 10 FREDRIC JAMESON Magical Narratives: On the Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism 167 -- 11 TZVETAN TODOROV The Origin of Genres 193 -- 12 GERARD GENETTE The Architext 210 -- 13 JACQUES DERRIDA The Law of Genre 219 -- 14 ALASTAIR FOWLER Transformations of Genre 232 -- 15 MARY EAGLETON Genre and Gender 250 -- Notes on Authors.