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Convention and innovation in literature

By Helmut , Grübel , Rainer Georg; Haen , Theo d'; Lethen

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1989
ISBN
90-272-2209-6, 9789027222091, 9789027278340, 9027278342, 90-272-2210-X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7356483 bytes)
Series
Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature 24
Pages
434\457
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

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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