GERMAN

Literatur als kulturelle Ökologie: Zur kulturellen Funktion imaginativer Texte an Beispielen des amerikanischen Romans

By Hubert Zapf

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2002
ISBN
9783110946734, 9783484220638
DOI
10.1515/9783110946734
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19697940 bytes)
Series
Konzepte der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft; 63
Pages
247\248
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-23 02:48:15

Description

The relationship between literature and culture is described here in terms of an ecologically defined functional model of literary texts. Fictional texts are not only sensors identifying questionable cultural developments and hence representing an indispensable medium for cultural criticism. In addition, they are loci for the renewal of cultural creativity. The first part of the book supplies the theoretical substantiation for this approach and develops it into a fully-fledged literary ecology in the framework of present-day tendencies. The second part demonstrates the plausibility and sustaining power of the approach with reference to six representative American novels from different periods.

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