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Theorizing Literature

Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels - and Their Analysis

von: Erik Schilling
106,99 €
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	07.07.2024
ISBN/EAN:	9783031533266
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent Binet’s The 7th Function of Language, Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Patricia Duncker’s Hallucinating Foucault, Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, David Lodge’s Small World, and Juli Zeh’s Dark Matter. Erik Schilling shows how these works not only incorporate elements of theory in playful, intertextual ways, but productively work with theory – for instance, by elaborating the complexities of the roles of author and reader or by confronting the quest for meaning with an infinite network of signs. Schilling argues that the novels do not merely adopt theory; they create theory – and this theorizing literature requires new forms of interpretation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1) Introduction.- 2) Second-order literary theory.- 3) Narrating literary theory.- 4) The fragile relationship of author, reader, and Text.- 5) Topics in/of theory.- 6) Creating and interpreting fictional worlds.- 7)  Beyond novels – beyond theory?.- 8) Extrapolating theory from literature.- 9) Bibliography.

Autorenportrait

Erik Schilling teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Munich, Germany. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard and Oxford and, in 2020, he was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prize of the German Research Foundation. He is the author of Authenticity: The Career of a Longing (2020) and The Historical Novel since Postmodernism: Umberto Eco and German Literature (2012).

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<div>This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent Binet’s The 7th Function of Language, Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Patricia Duncker’s Hallucinating Foucault, Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, David Lodge’s Small World, and Juli Zeh’s Dark Matter. Erik Schilling shows how these works not only incorporate elements of theory in playful, intertextual ways, but productively work with theory – for instance, by elaborating the complexities of the roles of author and reader or by confronting the quest for meaning with an infinite network of signs. Schilling argues that the novels do not merely adopt theory; they create theory – and this theorizing literature requires new forms of interpretation. </div><div> </div><div>Erik Schilling teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Munich, Germany. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard and Oxford and, in 2020, he was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prize of the German Research Foundation. He is the author of Authenticity: The Career of a Longing (2020) and The Historical Novel since Postmodernism: Umberto Eco and German Literature (2012). </div>

Sonderbeitrag

Discusses international classics as well as works by lesser-known authors Draws on cutting-edge research in the field, offering a new interpretation of literary theory and literature as theory Argues that literature does not merely quote, stage, or mock theory, but forges theory in its own right