Literariness

Models, gradations, experiments

Edward Balcerzan author Soren Gauger translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:16th Dec '15

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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.

«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)

ISBN: 9783631647370

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 560g

363 pages

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