Opis: Structuralism Marxism Aesthetics of Reception Semiotics C. HURST and COMPANY , stron 220 stan bdb- (podniszczona lekko okładka) Język angielski In Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century the authors offer a stocktaking of major theoretical schools that held sway over literary studies in the present age. Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, and Semiotics are discussed in relation to their historical context and their present significance. This fourth printing has a new, extended preface in which new develop-"ments in the theory of interpretation—deconstruction, poststructuralism— and the empirical study of literature are set forth. Theories of Literature in the Twentieth Century has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, and Korean. ELRUD IBSCH is professor of General and Comparative Literature at the Free University, Amsterdam. She is author of Die Stellung Nietzsches in der Entwicklung der modernen Literaturwissenchaft (1972), co-editor of Rezeptionsforschung zwischen Hermeneutik und Empirik (1987) and Empirical Studies of Literature: Proceedings of the Second IGEL- Conference (1991). With Douwe Fokkema she published Modernist Conjectures: A Mainstream in European Literature 1910—1940 (1988) and Literatuurwetenschap en cultu-uroverdracht (1992). DOUWE FOKKEMA is professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University. He published Literary Doctrine in China and Soviet Influence (1965); his other books on modern China include Report fivm Peking (1971). In recent years he has done research in the field of modern European and American literature. His Erasmus letters at Harvard University have been published as Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism (1984). He is co-editor of Approaching Postmodernism (1986), Exploring Postmodernism (1987), and Cultural Participation: Trends since the Middle Ages (1993). CONTENTS Acknowledgements Foreword Preface to the Fourth Impression Chapters 1. Introduction 2. Russian Formalism, Czech Structuralism and Soviet Semiotics The Claim of Scientific Reliability— The Devices of i Literature— The System of Literature—Motif Analysis— Czech Structuralism —Soviet Semiotics— Concluding Remarks 3. Structuralism in France: Criticism, Narratology and Text Analysis Structuralist Criticism —Structuralist Narratology—Linguistic-Structuralist Text Description 4. Marxist Theories of Literature Marx, Engels, and Lenin—Theory and Practice after the October Revolution—The Chinese Reception of Marxist Literary Theories—Lukdcs and Neo-Marxist Criticism 5. The Reception of Literature: Theory and Practice of "Rezeptionsasthetik" Theoretical Discussion—Historical Study of Reception— Empirical Study of Reception—The Implicit Reader—The Social-Political Approach —Concluding Observations 6. Prospects for Further Research The Challenge of Semiotics—Epistemological Assumptions of the Historical Sciences—Jauss and the Sociology of Knowledge —A Semiotic Analysis of Structures of Communication— Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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