Read Thyself: Cultural Self-reflection and the Relevance of Literary âSelfâ-labels

Florian Lippert; Marcel Schmid

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Pages:: 1â19

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407114_002

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In recent political philosophy and sociology, self-reflexivity has been described as an indispensable condition for secularized democratic societies. In epistemology, it has been discussed as a key characteristic of human thinking. In this introduction, we discuss how literature connects both traditions by illustrating, demonstrating, and performing self-reflection in numerous forms. We provide an overview of the most important research on literary âselfâ-labels since the 1960s, from discourse-criticism and deconstruction to narratology and systems theory, and we outline a conceptual and terminological framework for contemporary analyses. In contrast to clichÃ©d ideas of postmodern âplayfulness,â literary self-reflexivity has a crucial critical potential, as Michel Foucault suggests in his early texts: It can subvert hegemonic âallocriticalâ discourses and deconstruct dominant narratives and metaphors of exclusion. Providing a kaleidoscopic panorama of different forms, functions and genres of literary self-reflection, and presenting a variety of specific approaches tailored to analyze them, this volume demonstrates how the realms of aesthetic self-reference, cultural self-reflection, and human self-understanding interconnect, and which epistemological, social, and political consequences can be drawn from their analyses.

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Self-reflection in Literature

Series:Â Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online, Volume: 202Â andÂ Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume: 202

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004407114

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 27 Dec 2019

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
- Philosophy
  - Aesthetics & Cultural Theory

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