نظرية الأنواع الأدبية : تصنيف بيداغوجي أم مواضعة ثقافية ؟

Abstract EN

This study is a historical analysis of genre theory in both western and eastern contexts, as an attempt to understand the relationship between literature and culture.

Culture institutionalizes literary creativity, and determines what counts as literature and what cannot.

The study attempts to answer a central question: Can literature survive outside genre theory? It divides Arab genre theory into two phases: first, the lyrical phase in which poetry alone dominated the cultural scene; and second the dialectical phase in which the status of poetry was challenged with the emergence of prose writing.

The western context also went through two phases; the first is what one can call the orthodox phase which was marked with a clear and programmatic division into genres, starting with Aristotle’s Poetics; and the second is the phase of the revolution or imagining it, and this is the phase that marks the emeregence of the novel.