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Convention and Innovation in Literature

  • Edited by: Theo D’haen , Rainer Grübel and Helmut Lethen
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1989
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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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Theo D’haen, Rainer Grübel and Helmut Lethen
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Douwe W. Fokkema
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A modest proposal
Jaap Oversteegen
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Convention and innovation in literary history
André Lefevere
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Raymond Van den Broeck
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A novel romance?
Keith Busby
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Convention and submerged metaphor in renaissance literature and art
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Popular sentimentalism and Hemrich von Kleist’s first tale
Joachim von der Thüsen
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Joost J. Kloek
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On the development of Russian prose fiction
S. Brouwer
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The Russian reception of Aleksandr Puškin
Rainer Grübel
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The “Odes” of John Keats
A. Fry
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Lexical irony in Aleksandr Puškin’s Evgenij Onegin
Melchior de Wolff
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A contest between innovation and convention
Jacques Plessen
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Poetry and tradition
J. Enklaar-Langendijk
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J.M. Stelleman
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Brecht and the historical avant-garde
Helga Geyer-Ryan and Helmut Lethen
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René Harding rejects George Eliot
P.J. de Voogd
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The contemporaneity of magic realism
Richard Todd
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Hans Bertens
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Theo D’haen
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