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Convention and Innovation in Literature
Edited by Theo D’haen, Rainer Grübel and Helmut Lethen
[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature 24] 1989
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Introduction: The decline and rise of conventionvii
The concept of convention in literary theory and empirical research1
Genre: A modest proposal17
The dynamics of the system: Convention and innovation in literary history37
Literary convention and translated literature57
Cristal et Clarie: A novel romance?77
The well-tempered lady and the unruly horse: Convention and submerged metaphor in renaissance literature and art105
The shaking walls of convention: Popular sentimentalism and Hemrich von Kleist’s first tale123
Innovation or confirmation of the norm? Goethe’s Werther in Holland 1775–1800151
Folk-tale and novel: On the development of Russian prose fiction165
Convention and innovation of aesthetic value: The Russian reception of Aleksandr Puškin181
A note on convention and innovation: The “Odes” of John Keats225
Romanticism unmasked: Lexical irony in Aleksandr Puškin’s Evgenij Onegin235
The tribulations of the Alexandrine in the work of Rimbaud: A contest between innovation and convention253
Rudolf Borchardt: Poetry and tradition273
Innovative use of commedia dell’arte-elements in A. Blok’s The Fairground Booth293
The rhetoric of forgetting: Brecht and the historical avant-garde305
Literature of displacement: René Harding rejects George Eliot349
Convention and innovation in British fiction 1981–1984: The contemporaneity of magic realism361
The convention of the new beginning in Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast389
Genre conventions in postmodern fiction405
Notes on the contributors421
Index425


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