The book 'In Literary Theory and Text Science' by the Jordanian writer Ibrahim Khalil includes an array of studies and articles unified by the idea of the relationship between text, genre, discourse, and language. This significant literary work raises several questions, such as how we should differentiate between text and discourse. Is every discourse a text, or is every text a discourse? What are the principles upon which texts are constructed and understood? Are they the same grammatical rules found in grammar books, or do texts possess distinct rules that vary, albeit without diverging from traditional rules? When did the idea of speaking about text rules and textual grammar, or text linguistics, emerge? Does ancient Greek and Arabic heritage offer a foundation for this undeniably modern science? If so, where can we find this groundwork? Does Abdul-Qahir al-Jurjani's theory of order relate to this textual grammar? If there is a specific relation, where is it? Who are the modern figures who addressed the principles of text construction from a grammatical perspective, and what are their views? What is the connection between cohesion and coherence? What are the syntactic cohesion rules and the forms of horizontal referencing that integrate the text's components and minor structures into a cohesive system? What are the opinions of Ruqaiya Hasan, Halliday, and Van Dijk, who sometimes focused on discourse analysis and at other times on text analysis? What is the position of textual grammar within Arabic linguistic criticism? Does the theory of literary genres influence the distinction between text and non-text? What role do structural and deconstructive linguistics, theory of style, or communication play in modern criticism's vision of text structures and their reception, based on theories distant from subjective impressions and personal assessments that lack theoretical criteria? This book contains two sections: The first section, 'In Literary Theory,' comprises six chapters with titles as follows: Chapter 1: Genre Theory, Heritage and Concepts. Chapter 2: Classification Criteria and Genre Correspondence. Chapter 3: Is it a Theory of Literature or a Theory of Criticism? Chapter 4: Adjacent Literary Theories. Chapter 5: New Novel and Typing Dilemma - Shukri al-Madhi Model... Chapter 6: Literary Theory and Hybridization of Genres. The second section of the book is titled 'In Text Science' and contains three chapters: Chapter 1: Order in the Light of Text Science. Chapter 2: Sentence and Text. Chapter 3: Reception of Criticism Theories - Linguistic such as... on Text Grammar. An essential literary study that aids researchers specializing in literature, language, and discourse on the relationship between text and genre.

• Publishing house: Arab Scientific Publishers/Lebanon
• Number of Pages: 336
• Year of publication: 2010