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Item Details
Title:
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CONVENTION AND INNOVATION IN LITERATURE
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By: |
Theo d' Haen (Editor), Rainer Grubel (Editor), Helmut Lethen (Editor) |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£118.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
9027222096 |
ISBN 13: |
9789027222091 |
Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 1989 |
Series: |
Utrecht Publications in General & Comparative Literature 24 |
Pages: |
456 |
Description: |
A critical evaluation of the concepts of "convention" and "innovation" as applied in the study of changing literary values, hierarchies and canons. Two approaches are analyzed: the linking of convention and the subject's awareness of convention, and systems theory. |
Synopsis: |
This work is a critical evaluation of the concepts of convention and innovation as applied in the study of changing literary values, hierarchies and canons. Two approaches are analyzed: (1) the linking of convention and the subject's awareness of convention, and (2) systems theory. The merits of both approaches are discussed and an attempt is made to combine them and to regard systems of literary communication primarily as systems of conventions. Specific cases of changing conventions and innovation are illustrated with examples from the field of versification (Rimbaud), reception studies (Puskin, Goethe, George Eliot), the dichotomy of forgetting/remembering (Nietzsche, Proust), avant-garde, the American dream, and popular genres assimilated in Postmodernism. |
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Netherlands |
Imprint: |
John Benjamins Publishing Co |
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Non-returnable |
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