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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...
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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 (Pus
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CONVENTION AND INNOVATION IN LITERATURE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction: The Decline and Rise of Convention; REFERENCES; The Concept of Convention in Literary Theory and Empirical Research; Definitions of Convention; Convention and Ideology, Convention and Code; Empirical Aspects of Convention; NOTES; REFERENCES; Genre: A Modest Proposal; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Dynamics of the System: Convention and Innovation in Literary History; REFERENCES; Literary Conventions and Translated Literature; NOTES; REFERENCES; Cristalet Clarie: a Novel Romance?
NOTESREFERENCES; The Well-Tempered Lady and the Unruly Horse: Convention and Submerged Metaphor in Renaissance Literature and Art; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Shaking Walls of Convention: Popular Sentimentalism and Heinrich von Kleists First Tale; NOTES; REFERENCES; Innovation or Confirmation of the Norm? Goethe's Werther in Holland 1775-1800; Eighteenth-century Novel Conventions and Goethe's Departure from them; The Reception of Werther in Holland: Detractors and Admirers; The Advocates; Innovation or Confirmation of the Norm?; NOTES; REFERENCES
Folk-tale and Novel: On the Development of Russian Prose FictionNOTES; REFERENCES; Conventionand Innovation of Aesthetic Value: The Russian Reception of Aleksandr Puškin; 1. Definitions; 2. The development of the chronological and topical evaluation of Puškin; 3. Conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; NOTES; REFERENCES; A Note on Convention and Innovation: The "Odes" of John Keats; NOTES; REFERENCES; Romanticism Unmasked: Lexical Irony in Aleksandr Puškin's Evgenij Onegin; 0. Introduction; 1. The Concept of Lexical Irony; 2.The Dvuplannost' Principle; 3. Usage and Contexts of Mecta; 4. Conclusion
NOTEREFERENCES; The Tribulations of the Alexandrine in theWork of Rimbaud: A Contest betweenInnovation and Convention; NOTES; REFERENCES; Rudolf Borchardt: Poetry and Tradition; NOTES; REFERENCES; Innovative use of commedia dell'arte-elements in A, Blok's The Fairground Booth.; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Rhetoric of Forgetting: Brecht and the Historical Avant-garde; 1. Modernists versus Avant-gardists; 1.1. The Criterion of Forgetting; 1.2. Samuel Beckett: A Tableau of Forgetting; 1.3. Marcel Proust: Forgetting and its Power to Preserve; 1.4. MauriceHalbwachs: Les Cadres sociaux de la mémoire
1.5. Museum Landscape and Areas of Total Mobilization1.6. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Paradoxical Nature of Forgetting; 1.7. Drug-induced Forgetting.; 2. Brecht's Rhetoric of Forgetting; 2.1. Carnivalesque Forgetting; 2.2. Forgetting and Resistance; 2.3. Wiping out the Traces; 2.4. The Rhetoric of Forgetting and Brecht's Marxism; 2.5. Paradoxes of a One-Dimensional Poem; 2.6. Education or the Classic Example of Cynicism; 2.7. Forgetting as a Productive Flash Back; 3. Epilogue: The Débacle of Forgetting; REFERENCES; Literature of Displacement: René Harding Rejects George Eliot
Convention and Innovation in British Fiction 1981-1984: The Contemporaneity of Magic Realism
