Literary Studies in Reconstruction: An Introduction to Literature

By Marko Juvan

The identity and relevance of literary studies require a conceptual and institutional reconstruction in response to the global reshaping and commodification of knowledge. The author thus proposes a theory of literary discourse and literary history that take into account literariness as an important socio-cultural phenomenon and revisits several critical concepts, such as world literature, literary text, genre, style, fiction, literary space, and cultural memory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631618069
• ISBN13: 9783631618066
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 284 Pages