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UNNATURAL INTERBREEDING: H. G. WELLS'S A MODERN UTOPIA AS SPECIES AND GENRE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2005
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Does a theory of literary kinds involve the supposition that every work belongs to a kind? The question is not raised in any discussion we know. If we were to answer by analogy to the natural world, we should certainly answer ‘yes’: even the whale and the bat can be placed; and we admit of creatures who are transitions from one kingdom to another.
—René Wellek and Austin Warren, Theory of Literature (1942)
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