Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 333 g
Literature as Discourse
Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 333 g
Reihe: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
ISBN: 978-3-031-50969-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
This book presents Maingueneau’s notion of paratopia and its application to literary discourse. Unlike most discourse analysts, who pay little attention to literature, the author argues that a discourse analytical perspective allows us to challenge the usual separation between textual and contextual approaches to works.
Considered as an impossible belonging, paratopia is a condition of possibility of literature, of the subjects who occupy a writer's position and of the use they make of language. To find their place as creators, writers must elaborate their own paratopia, they must give it shape and meaning. Their works must both construct a certain world and, through paratopic shifters, reflect and legitimise the conditions of their own appearance.
Paratopia is an invariant of literature, but it takes different forms throughout history: writers draw on their paratopic potential to appropriate the resources made available tothem by literary discourse in their own time. Today, the development of digital technologies and research on gender prompts us to take a different look at traditional forms of paratopia.
The corpus includes canonical and recent texts, mainly from Western literature. It will be of interest to students and scholars in literary studies, discourse studies (discourse theory and discourse analysis), and sociology of culture.Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1: A paradoxical belonging.- Chapter 2: Literary discourse analysis and self-constituting discourses.- Chapter 3. Writers and authors.- Chapter 4: The paratopia of literary discourse.- Chapter 5: The impossible common language.- Chapter 6: Paratopia and paratopic potential.- Chapter 7: Paratopic shifters.- Chapter 8: Developing a creative paratopia.- Chapter 9: Male creation and femininity.- Chapter 10: Trouble in paratopia.
