Convention and Innovation in Literature
Editors
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.
[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 24] 1989. xxii, 434 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 December 2011
Published online on 19 December 2011
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Table of Contents
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Introduction: The decline and rise of conventionTheo D’haen, Rainer Grübel and Helmut Lethen | p. vii
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The concept of convention in literary theory and empirical researchDouwe W. Fokkema | p. 1
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Genre: A modest proposalJaap Oversteegen | p. 17
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The dynamics of the system: Convention and innovation in literary historyAndré Lefevere | p. 37
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Literary convention and translated literatureRaymond Van den Broeck | p. 57
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Cristal et Clarie: A novel romance?Keith Busby | p. 77
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The well-tempered lady and the unruly horse: Convention and submerged metaphor in renaissance literature and artB. Westerweel | p. 105
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The shaking walls of convention: Popular sentimentalism and Hemrich von Kleist’s first taleJoachim von der Thüsen | p. 123
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Innovation or confirmation of the norm? Goethe’s Werther in Holland 1775–1800Joost J. Kloek | p. 151
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Folk-tale and novel: On the development of Russian prose fictionS. Brouwer | p. 165
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Convention and innovation of aesthetic value: The Russian reception of Aleksandr PuškinRainer Grübel | p. 181
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A note on convention and innovation: The “Odes” of John KeatsA. Fry | p. 225
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Romanticism unmasked: Lexical irony in Aleksandr Puškin’s Evgenij OneginMelchior de Wolff | p. 235
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The tribulations of the Alexandrine in the work of Rimbaud: A contest between innovation and conventionJacques Plessen | p. 253
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Rudolf Borchardt: Poetry and traditionJ. Enklaar-Langendijk | p. 273
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Innovative use of commedia dell’arte-elements in A. Blok’s The Fairground BoothJ.M. Stelleman | p. 293
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The rhetoric of forgetting: Brecht and the historical avant-gardeHelga Geyer-Ryan and Helmut Lethen | p. 305
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Literature of displacement: René Harding rejects George EliotP.J. de Voogd | p. 349
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Convention and innovation in British fiction 1981–1984: The contemporaneity of magic realismRichard Todd | p. 361
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The convention of the new beginning in Theroux’s The Mosquito CoastHans Bertens | p. 389
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Genre conventions in postmodern fictionTheo D’haen | p. 405
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Notes on the contributors | p. 421
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Index | p. 425
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSB: Literary studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT000000: LITERARY CRITICISM / General