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Author Metzidakis, Stamos, author

Title Difference unbound : the rise of pluralism in literature and criticism / Stamos Metzidakis ; preface by Mary Ann Caws
Edition Second enlarged edition
Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Faux titre ; 94
Faux titre ; no. 94.
Contents Preliminary Material -- PREFACE / Mary Ann Caws -- AUTHOR'S NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- THE "PROBLEM" OF LITERARY PLURALISM -- CHANGING APPROACHES: FROM TEXTS TO READERS (AND BACK) -- MODERN LITERARY QUESTS FOR ORIGINALITY -- CRITICAL PROGRESS -- CONCLUSION: RE-VIEWING PLURALISM AND LITERATURE -- BILIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES CITED -- DIFFERENCE UNBOUND INDEX OF CONCEPTS
Summary This is the first book to examine the precise relationship between pluralism and the production of Western literature and criticism from the eighteenth century to the present. It underscores the historical rather than exclusively epistemological reasons behind what is here called "the rise of literary pluralism." This rise entails, on the one hand, the modern day phenomenon of an ever-increasing number of readings of both canonical and contemporary works of verbal art; and, on the other, our ever-growing body of literature written with an eye towards different types of characters, situations, forms and styles. Reviewing a wide range of authors and thinkers--from German, French and English Romantics to Anglo-American and European poststructuralist theorists--it shows how and why the current literary emphasis on difference derives from an unquestioned allegiance to the notion of cultural pluralism. While never denying the value of the latter, it seeks instead to analyze the oftentimes unquestioned implications of this historically-situated belief within the specific realm of literary studies
Subject Multiculturalism in literature.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
French literature -- History and criticism
Criticism -- History
Criticism.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
French literature.
Literature, Modern.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Caws, Mary Ann, writer of preface
ISBN 9789004358010
9004358013