ID - 147704662 TI - Theorizing Literature : Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels – and Their Analysis PY - 2024 SN - 9783031533266 9783031533259 9783031533273 9783031533280 PB - Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Literature KW - History KW - literatuur KW - literatuurgeschiedenis KW - fantasie (verbeelding) KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - Europe KW - Fiction. KW - Literature, Modern KW - European literature. KW - Fiction Literature. KW - Literary History. KW - Contemporary Literature. KW - Twentieth-Century Literature. KW - Literary Criticism. KW - European Literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - 20th century. KW - 21st century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147704662 AB - 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. Erik Schilling teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Munich, Germany. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard and Oxford and, in 2020, he was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prize of the German Research Foundation. He is the author of Authenticity: The Career of a Longing (2020) and The Historical Novel since Postmodernism: Umberto Eco and German Literature (2012). ER -