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Convention and Innovation in Literature
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Theo D’haen
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English
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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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Table of contents
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Introduction: The decline and rise of convention
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The concept of convention in literary theory and empirical research
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Genre
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The dynamics of the system
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Literary convention and translated literature
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Cristal et Clarie
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The well-tempered lady and the unruly horse
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The shaking walls of convention
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Innovation or confirmation of the norm? Goethe’s Werther in Holland 1775–1800
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Folk-tale and novel
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Convention and innovation of aesthetic value
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A note on convention and innovation
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Romanticism unmasked
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The tribulations of the Alexandrine in the work of Rimbaud
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Rudolf Borchardt
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Innovative use of commedia dell’arte -elements in A. Blok’s The Fairground Booth
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The rhetoric of forgetting
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Literature of displacement
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Convention and innovation in British fiction 1981–1984
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The convention of the new beginning in Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast
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Genre conventions in postmodern fiction
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Notes on the contributors
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Theoretical literature & literary studies
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