Literature as System : : Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History / / Claudio Guillen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Guillen, Claudio,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1449
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.)

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I -- 1. The Aesthetics of Literary Influence -- 2. A Note on Influences and Conventions -- II. -- 3. Toward a Definition of the Picaresque -- 4. On the Uses of Literary Genre -- 5. Genre and Counter genre: The Discovery of the Picaresque -- 6. Literature as Historical Contradiction: El Abencerraje, the Moorish Novel, and the Eclogue -- III. -- 7. Stylistics of Silence -- IV. -- 8. On The Concept and Metaphor of Perspective -- V. -- 9. Literature as System -- 10. Second Thoughts on Literary Periods -- 11. On the Object of Literary Change -- INDEX