Title: Kinds of literature : an introduction to the theory of genres and modes /
Authors: Fowler, Alastair.
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Literary form.
Contents: Literature as a genre -- Ancient misapprehensions -- Concepts of genre -- Historical kinds and the generic repertoire -- Generic names -- Generic signals -- Mode and subgenre -- Generic labels -- The formation of genres -- Transformations of genre -- Generic modulation -- Hierarchies of genres and canons of literature -- Systems of genres -- Genre in interpretation.