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The document discusses different theories of genre and literary evolution proposed by Tynyanov, Tomashevsky, and Bakhtin. Tynyanov conceptualizes genre as a "system of references" involving different levels of relation from the individual work to literature as a whole to the human environment. He argues genre evolution is not linear but a struggle where old forms are replaced by new ones, with parody playing an essential role. Tomashevsky speculates genres evolve analogously to social classes being replaced
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