Introduction: The decline and rise of convention

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction: The decline and rise of convention vii
4. The concept of convention in literary theory and empirical research 1
5. Genre 17
6. The dynamics of the system 37
7. Literary convention and translated literature 57
8. Cristal et Clarie 77
9. The well-tempered lady and the unruly horse 105
10. The shaking walls of convention 123
11. Innovation or confirmation of the norm? Goethe’s Werther in Holland 1775–1800 151
12. Folk-tale and novel 165
13. Convention and innovation of aesthetic value 181
14. A note on convention and innovation 225
15. Romanticism unmasked 235
16. The tribulations of the Alexandrine in the work of Rimbaud 253
17. Rudolf Borchardt 273
18. Innovative use of commedia dell’arte -elements in A. Blok’s The Fairground Booth 293
19. The rhetoric of forgetting 305
20. Literature of displacement 349
21. Convention and innovation in British fiction 1981–1984 361
22. The convention of the new beginning in Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast 389
23. Genre conventions in postmodern fiction 405
24. Notes on the contributors 421
25. Index 425