Der Sammelband behandelt das Spannungsfeld zwischen literarischer Produktion und traditioneller Sprachnorm in den beiden Amerikas. Zentrale Fragestellung ist dabei, ob und wie Literatur bei der Etablierung plurizentrischer Sprachnormen eine...
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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Der Sammelband behandelt das Spannungsfeld zwischen literarischer Produktion und traditioneller Sprachnorm in den beiden Amerikas. Zentrale Fragestellung ist dabei, ob und wie Literatur bei der Etablierung plurizentrischer Sprachnormen eine initiierende oder gar prägende Rolle einnimmt. Überblicksbeiträge zur Genese der (literatursprachlichen) Norm in den jeweiligen Sprachgebieten (Englisch, Französisch, Portugiesisch, Spanisch, Kreol) werden durch Autorenportraits ergänzt, in denen deren spezifischer Beitrag bei der Infragestellung der exogenen und Stärkung der endogenen Norm analysiert wird. This collected volume deals with the tension between literary production and traditional language norms in the two Americas. The central question posed is that of whether and how literature assumes an initiating or even determining role in establishing pluricentric language norms. Overview accounts of the genesis of (literary) language norms in the various language areas (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish) are accompanied by portraits of particular writers, analysing their specific contribution to the questioning of exogenic norms and the strengthening of endogenic standards.
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An engaging introduction to contemporary debates in literary theoryIn the late twentieth century, the common sense approach to literature was deemed naïve. Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author, and Hillis Miller declared that all...
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Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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An engaging introduction to contemporary debates in literary theoryIn the late twentieth century, the common sense approach to literature was deemed naïve. Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author, and Hillis Miller declared that all interpretation is theoretical. In many a literature department, graduate students spent far more time on Derrida and Foucault than on Shakespeare and Milton. Despite this, common sense approaches to literature—including the belief that literature represents reality and authorial intentions matter—have resisted theory with tenacity. As a result, argues Antoine Compagnon, theorists have gone to extremes, boxed themselves into paradoxes, and distanced others from their ideas. Eloquently assessing the accomplishments and failings of literary theory, Compagnon ultimately defends the methods and goals of a theoretical commitment tempered by the wisdom of common sense.The book is organized not by school of thought but around seven central questions: literariness, the author, the world, the reader, style, history, and value. What makes a work literature? Does fiction imitate reality? Is the reader present in the text? What constitutes style? Is the context in which a work is written important to its apprehension? Are literary values universal?As he examines how theory has wrestled these themes, Compagnon establishes not a simple middle-ground but a state of productive tension between high theory and common sense. The result is a book that will be met with both controversy and sighs of relief.
