Convention and Innovation in Literature (Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027222096 ISBN 13: 9789027222091

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 9027222096
• ISBN 13: 9789027222091
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 456
• Editor: D’haen Theo, Grübel Rainer, Lethen Helmut