This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Claudio Guillén,Literature as System. Essays toward the theory of literary history. (Princeton: Princeton U. P., 1971)
Cf. René Wellek, “Genre Theory, the Lyric, and “Erlebnis’”, inDiscriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970); Joseph P. Strelka,Theories of Literary Genre. (University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978), especially the Intorducion of J. Strelka and the essays of Adrian Marino, “Toward a Definition of Literary Genres” (pp. 41–56) and of Klaus Weissenberger, “A Morphological Genre Theory: An Answer to a Pluralism of Forms”, (pp. 229–253).
Dmitri Segal, “Israeli Contributions to Literary Theory, in Elrud Ibsch (ed.),Schwerpunkte der Literaturwissenschaft ausserhalb des deutschen Sprachraums (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1982) pp. 261–292. (Quoted pp. 267–268.)
Julia Kristeva, “La sémiologie comme science critique” inThéorie d'ensemble Paris: Seuil, 1968, p. 92 (Collection Tel Quel). Cf. Michel Arrivé, “Forderungen für die linguistische Beschreibung eines literarischen Textes”, in Helmut Hatzfeld (ed.)Romanische Stilforschung. (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1975), pp. 355–370 (Wege der Forschung Bd. CCCXCIII)
Itamar Even-Zohar,Papers in Historical Poetics. (Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University, 1978), Quoted by D. Segal op. cit. (see footnote 3) pp. 264–265.
Ludwig von Bertalanffy,General System Theory. Foundations, Developments, Applications. Revised Edition. (New York: George Braziller. Sixth printing: 1979) pp. 36–37.
Ibid. pp. 28–29.
Literature to the problem: Itamar Even-Zohar (in addition to footnote 5), “Polysystem Theory”,Poetics To-day, I (1979), 1–2. pp. 287–310. Gideon Toury,In Search of a Theory of Translation. (Tel-Aviv: The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, 1980) José Lambert,Un modèle descriptif pour l'étude de la littérature. La Littérature comme polysystème. (Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit, december 1983, paper nr. 29).
I refer here to my own experiments to give a structural description of the Symbolist movement in Anna Balakian ed.,The Symbolist Movement in the Literature of European Languages (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1982), pp. 29–41.
Cf. Felix Vodička, Die Struktur der literarischen Entwicklung (München: Fink Verlag, 1976). (Theorie und Geschichte der Literatur und der schönen Künste, Bd. 34).
Fernand Braudel, “Histoire et sciences sociales. La longue durée” in: Braudel,Ecrits sur l'histoire (Paris: Flammarion, 1969), pp. 41–84.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Vajda, G.M. Second thoughts about literary systems. Neohelicon 13, 149–157 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02028905
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02028905