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CONTENTS

Preliminary remarks

Preface to the third edition

Acknowledgements

1 What is literature? What is a text?

Genre, text type, and discourse

Primary and secondary sources

2 Major genres in literary studies

3 Periods of literature

4 Theoretical approaches to literature

Text-oriented approaches

Author-oriented approaches

Reader-oriented approaches

Context-oriented approaches

Literary critique or evaluation

5 Where and how to find secondary literature

6 How to write a research paper

7 Suggestions for further reading

General literary terminology

Authors and works

Literary theory

Literary history

How to write a research paper

8 Glossary of literary and cinematographic terms

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