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

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

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...

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

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