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• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table Of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 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
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index