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Literature as System
Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History
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2015
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Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillén proposes a structural approach to literary history.
Originally published in 1971.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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CONTENTS
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Introduction
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1. The Aesthetics of Literary Influence
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2. A Note on Influences and Conventions
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3. Toward a Definition of the Picaresque
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4. On the Uses of Literary Genre
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5. Genre and Counter genre: The Discovery of the Picaresque
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6. Literature as Historical Contradiction: El Abencerraje, the Moorish Novel, and the Eclogue
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7. Stylistics of Silence
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8. On The Concept and Metaphor of Perspective
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9. Literature as System
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10. Second Thoughts on Literary Periods
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11. On the Object of Literary Change
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INDEX
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Keywords for this book
Poetry; Literature; Genre; Picaresque novel; Metaphor; Romanticism; Theory; Narrative; Lazarillo de Tormes; Literary criticism; Essay; Comparative literature; Literary theory; Antithesis; Søren Kierkegaard; Novel; The Philosopher; Scholasticism; Antonio de Guevara; À rebours; Aphorism; Nominalism; Periodization; Writing; A priori and a posteriori; Criticism; Narcissism; Sentimental novel; Archetype; How It Happened; Henri Bergson; Kenneth Burke; Philosophy of history; Aesthetic Theory; Overreaction; Creative writing; Historicism; Pen name; Karl Jaspers; Perspectivism; The Squire's Tale; Fernando de Herrera; Quintilian; Mutatis mutandis; Aloysius Bertrand; Wilhelm Dilthey; Ezra Pound; Arnaut Daniel; Assonance; Reality principle; New Criticism; Marcel Duchamp; I. A. Richards; Friedrich Nietzsche; Philosophy; Orientalism; The Two Dianas; Epic poetry; Simplicissimus; Ticktock (novel); Parody; Novel of manners; Mario Praz; Ernst Robert Curtius; Pythagoreanism; Literary realism; Satire; The Horse's Mouth; Dissociation of sensibility; La Celestina
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
