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Anarchetypes
A Re-evaluation of Marginal Literary Forms and Genres
Series: - Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 112
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Why have literary works and corpuses â such as ancient Greek-Roman novels, Renaissance chivalric literature, early modern extraordinary voyages, classical French and English romances, or modern fantasy â been rejected from the canon of high literature? This volume aims at introducing the concept of anarchetype, in contrast to the concept of archetype, in order to define the âflawed designâ of texts which, contrary to the Aristotelian tradition, have no closed structure or global organic meaning. This new-formalist approach will allow the re-evaluation of literary narrative and genres which have been judged by rhetors and theorists as marginal leftovers and failures devoid of aesthetic value.
Contributors are: Maria Barbu, Carmen Borbély, Corin Braga, Ruxandra Cesereanu, Marius Conkan, Laura T. Ilea, CÄlina PÄrÄu, Radu Toderici, and Alex VÄsieÈ.
Contributors are: Maria Barbu, Carmen Borbély, Corin Braga, Ruxandra Cesereanu, Marius Conkan, Laura T. Ilea, CÄlina PÄrÄu, Radu Toderici, and Alex VÄsieÈ.
Corin Braga is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Babes-Bolyai University, Romania. He has published books in comparative and world literature, imagination studies, and religious imaginaries, including Pour une morphologie du genre utopique (2018), Archétypologie postmoderne (2019), and Enciclopedia imaginariilor din România (ed.) [The Encyclopaedia of Romanian Imaginaries], 5 vols. (2020).
Preface
Notes on Contributors
1 Anarchetypes
âCorin Braga
2 Anarchetypal Novels of Late Antiquity
âCorin Braga
3 At the Margins of French Classical Aesthetics: the Novel and âNon-canonisedâ Literature in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
âRadu Toderici
4 The Anarchetypal Drift of Novelistic Form in the Long Eighteenth Century
âCarmen Borbély
5 Fantasy Literature: an (An)archetypological Approach
âMarius Conkan
6 Maximalist Novels with Anarchetypal Tendencies in Postmodernism
âAlex VÄsieÈ
7 Brain Maps, Visions and Dreams in Mircea CÄrtÄrescuâs Anarchetypal Fiction
âRuxandra Cesereanu
8 (Post)Modern Wanderers: Anarchetypal Literary Journeys across North America
âMaria Barbu
9 Lost Maps of Social Space: Walking the Memory Routes of Flânerie
âCÄlina PÄrÄu
10 Nomadic Writing: the âSwamp of Memoryâ and Literature as Ordered Chaos
âLaura T. Ilea
Index Nominum
Notes on Contributors
1 Anarchetypes
âCorin Braga
2 Anarchetypal Novels of Late Antiquity
âCorin Braga
3 At the Margins of French Classical Aesthetics: the Novel and âNon-canonisedâ Literature in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
âRadu Toderici
4 The Anarchetypal Drift of Novelistic Form in the Long Eighteenth Century
âCarmen Borbély
5 Fantasy Literature: an (An)archetypological Approach
âMarius Conkan
6 Maximalist Novels with Anarchetypal Tendencies in Postmodernism
âAlex VÄsieÈ
7 Brain Maps, Visions and Dreams in Mircea CÄrtÄrescuâs Anarchetypal Fiction
âRuxandra Cesereanu
8 (Post)Modern Wanderers: Anarchetypal Literary Journeys across North America
âMaria Barbu
9 Lost Maps of Social Space: Walking the Memory Routes of Flânerie
âCÄlina PÄrÄu
10 Nomadic Writing: the âSwamp of Memoryâ and Literature as Ordered Chaos
âLaura T. Ilea
Index Nominum
For students, researchers and wide readership interested in World Literature, Comparative Literature and national literatures (Greek-Latin, English, French, American, African), in Literary theory, Literary Genres, New-Formalism, Post-postmodernism.