Literature as system; essays toward the theory of literary history
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Princeton, N.J.] :
Princeton University Press,
1971
[Princeton, N.J.] 1971 [Princeton, N.J.] 1971 [Princeton, N.J.] : 1971 |
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Table of Contents:
- The aesthetics of literary influence
- A note on influences and conventions
- Toward a definition of the picaresque
- On the uses of literary genre
- Genre and countergenre: the discovery of the picaresque
- Literature as historical contradiction: El Abencerraje, the Moorish novel, and the eclogue
- Stylistics of silence
- On the concept and metaphor of perspective
- Literature as system
- Second thoughts on literary periods
- On the object of literary change