Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism: (The Harvard University Erasmus Lectures, Spring 1983) - Brossura

Fokkema, Douwe Wessel

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ISBN 10: 9027222045 ISBN 13: 9789027222046

Casa editrice: John Benjamins Pub Co, 1984

Riassunto

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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• Editore: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 9027222045
• ISBN 13: 9789027222046
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 71