Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism (Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature) - Softcover

Fokkema, Douwe W.

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9789027222046: Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism (Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature)

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ISBN 10: 9027222045 ISBN 13: 9789027222046

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1984

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In these lectures, delivered at Harvard University in March 1983, the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism are discussed in semiotic terms, based on a contrastive analysis of semantic and syntactical (compositional) features. They present the major results of research into the literary conventions of Modernism (Gide, Larbaud, V. Woolf, du Perron, Th. Mann) and the innovations of Postmodernism (Borges, Fuentes, Barthelme, Calvino, Hermans). The investigation of innovation in literary history is based on a concept of literary evolution, launched by the Russian Formalists and elaborated by reception theory and semioticians such as Lotman and Eco. The author argues for further corroboration by means of empirical – textual as well as psychological – research.

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