Literariness: Models, gradations, experiments

by Edward Balcerzan, Aleksander Fiut (Editor), Soren Gauger (Translator)

Overview

The deepest crises cannot destroy the universal model of literariness. It maintains its appeal for participants in literary communication as a «contradictory» model. This thought recurs in many epochs. Literariness involves suspending the formal or logical norms of contradiction (lex contraditionis). In everyday speech, it is not permissible for «A» to simultaneously be «not-A»; in literary structures this is the norm. This is both in the ideas, and in the tensions between the artificiality and naturalness of speech, the structure and the chaos of the plot, experimentation and revitalization of tradition, objective observation and a biased vision of the world, its visibility and invisibility, expressibility and inexpressibility, and a realistic and an imaginative focus. Executions of this model are gradative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631647370
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/16/2015
Series:	Studies in Modern Polish Literature and Culture , #1
Pages:	363
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward Balcerzan is a literary theorist, translator, poet, essayist, and professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is a correspondent for the Polish Academy of Sciences, Honorary Doctor of Szczecin University and scholar of Polish and Russian poetry of the 20^th century. His fields of work are literary theory and translatology.

Table of Contents

Contents: The limits of literature – The structure of the literary work – Artistic genres – Paraliterature – Structuralism – Semiotics.

Editorial Reviews

«Balcerzan’s study will prove a valuable addition to the libraries of all those with a serious interest in literary theory.»
(Barry P. Scherr, The Polish Review Vol. 63, No. 4, 2018)

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