Theorizing Literature
Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels ? and Their Analysis
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Product details:
- Edition number 2024
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 8 July 2024
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031533259
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages207 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 Illustrations, black & white 627
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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.
Table of Contents:
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.
