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In den Literaturen und Kulturen der ehemaligen Kolonien Frankreichs, Spaniens und Portugals finden kleine Formen wie Aphorismen und Sprichwörter auffallend häufig Verwendung, sowohl in Form von Aphorismen- und Sprichwörtersammlungen als auch eingebettet in narrative, dramatische, lyrische, essayistische oder journalistische Texte. Kern der untersuchten geographischen Gebiete bilden die Karibik sowie die historisch und politisch mit ihr eng verbundenen Regionen in Lateinamerika, Afrika und Europa.Entgegen der literaturgeschichtlichen Tendenz, das gelehrt-literarische Genre des Aphorismus und die populäre Gattung der Sprichwörter strikt voneinander zu trennen, betrachtet die Autorin diese beiden Formen als Teil eines Gattungsarchipels, in dem unterschiedliche kleine Formen durch ein Netz von Ähnlichkeiten miteinander verbunden sind. Auf dieser Grundlage zeigt sie Funktionsweisen kleiner Formen jenseits traditioneller Kategorisierungen auf: Kleine Formen bewegen sich in den untersuchten post-kolonialen Kontexten zwischen lebenspraktischer Einbettung und künstlerischer Autonomie, zwischen lokalem Bewusstsein, universellem Anspruch und Kosmopolitismus, zwischen ethnographischer Vereinnahmung und kulturellem Widerstand. Short form literature is highly popular across the world today. In the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania, they have long held a predominant place. This study uses the example of aphorisms and proverbs to illustrate the diversity of literary, cultural, and ethnographic functions of small literary forms in former French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies.

Aphorism. --- post-colonial literature. --- proverb. --- short literary forms.

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Littérature française --- Édition --- history of literature --- early modern france --- literary genres --- literary forms --- intertextuality --- editorial practices --- French literature --- History and criticism --- French literature. --- 1500-1699

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Literature --- Literary form --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literary form. --- Genres litteraires

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The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel studies the importance, the uses, and the changes in the work of genre in the contemporary novel. By looking at both the current interest in popular genres in literary writing, as well as at the currently ongoing changes to traditional genres, this book develops a broader perspective that suggests the value of genre criticism.Review: Both contributor and editor, Lanzendorfer has compiled an impressive variety of essays dealing with genre in the postmodern age and beyond. The issue is not a new one, and in fact it reinvents itself in virtually every generation. Nonetheless, few collections address the interactions and functions of so-called artistic fiction and 'lowbrow' entertainment as aggressively and productively as do the contributors to this collection. Investigating the liminal area between popular and 'literary' work has always been hazardous, and this book makes it even more so in that it ventures into narrative forms outside the novel itself, especially film and television. Scholars from the US, Germany, Israel, Canada, Italy, and Tunisia, all with impressive critical credentials, handle the challenge with skill and international heft. Divided into three sections, 'Genre at the End of Postmodernism,' 'Between High and Low, Literary and Popular,' and 'Revisiting Traditional Genre,' the 14 essays evaluate works as diverse as Saving Private Ryan, Cormac McCarthy's apocalyptic The Road, and Steven King's Joyland. The range of critical perspectives is inclusive and far-reaching. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. CHOICE We are in the midst of a genre turn-in the words of Lev Grossman, contemporary writers of literary fiction have been "frantically borrowing" from popular genres. The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel helps make sense of this trend, weighing the claims of genre skeptics and genre champions, and arguing for the centrality of genre to the way we understand the literary production of the present moment. The essays in this collection assay a wide range of writers and approaches to genre, but as a group they make a convincing case for the importance of genre to contemporary literary fiction, and for the importance of genre-thinking to contemporary criticism. -- Samuel Cohen, University of Missouri The collection offers a timely international perspective on genre in the contemporary period. Uniting a diverse range of critics, it provides unique insights into the texts under discussion and engages readers fully in the evolving and problematic boundaries that both define and challenge our understandings of genre today. --

Fiction genres. --- Literary form. --- Fiction genres --- Literary form --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Genre fiction --- Genres, Fiction --- Literature --- Fiction

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Originally published in 1988. Edgar Dryden challenges recent criticism that has tended to discredit—or at least devalue—the importance of "romance" as a thematic and generic category of American fiction. In The Form of American Romance, he examines its evolution and meaning through readings of five exemplary texts: Hawthorne's Marble Faun, Melville's Pierre, James's Portrait of a Lady, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and Barth's Letters. Each of these novels treats the problems of reading and writing in a self-referential way that reflects on the questions they dramatize, and Dryden has chosen each with the others in mind. Taken together, they chart a line of development with representative examples of what literary history calls romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism, and thus they suggest a certain story about the continuity of the American novel.

Literary form. --- Romanticism --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- Literature: history & criticism