Literature as system : essays toward the theory of literary history / Claudio Guillen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guillén, Claudio, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (543 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1971.

Language Note:

English

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.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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691647272

0691647275

9781400869275

1400869277

OCLC:

933516468