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Over the past three decades, genre classification has been a central concern for Slavists dealing with medieval Russian writings. A major impetus for the surge of interest in this area was Dmitrii Chizhevskii's paper On the Question of Genres in Old Russian Literature. [I]n the older literature, Chizhevskii wrote, more than in the writings of later periods and of our own time, the composition, the stylistic peculiarities, and even to some degree the contents of a work of literature are determined by the genre to which it belongs.1 He proceeded to point out instances where important texts had been misattributed or misunderstood because commentators had failed to consider their genre. Rudolf Jagoditsch advanced the discussion by proposing that the totality of early Russian genres constitutes a genre-system.2 The potential benefits of such an approach were immediately apparent to literary scholars, who set out to accommodate the notions of genre and genre-system to the corpus of pre-Petrine letters. In many respects their work has paralleled that of genre theoreticians involved in other spheres. They have raised similar questions about the virtues of crosscultural analytical categories as opposed to categories employed by the community itself, the degree of inclusiveness required for a viable taxonomic model, and the principles or rules sufficient to differentiate between one genre and another.3 In contrast to the medieval traditions
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