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- Literature as System: Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
summary
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.
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Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 8-9
- Introduction
- pp. 14-25
- I
- II
- 3. Toward a Definition of the Picaresque
- pp. 82-117
- 4. On the Uses of Literary Genre
- pp. 118-145
- III
- 7. Stylistics of Silence
- pp. 232-291
- IV
- 8. On The Concept and Metaphorof Perspective
- pp. 294-383
- V
- 9. Literature as System
- pp. 386-430
- 10. Second Thoughts on Literary Periods
- pp. 431-480
- 11. On the Object of Literary Change
- pp. 481-521
- Image Plates
- pp. 540-543
Additional Information
ISBN
9781400869275
Related ISBN(s)
9780691060743, 9780691620527, 9780691647272
MARC Record
OCLC
933516468
Pages
544
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No