Interruptions - The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature

Informationen zum Autor Gerald L. Bruns is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. His previous books include The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics , and What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. Klappentext Explores the effects of parataxis! or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Gerald L. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous examples of self-interrupting composition! starting with Friedrich Schlegel's inaugural theory and practice of the fragment as an assertion of the autonomy of words. Zusammenfassung Explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Gerald L. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous examples of self-interrupting composition, starting with Friedrich Schlegel's inaugural theory and practice of the fragment as an assertion of the autonomy of words.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald L Bruns, Gerald L. Bruns
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780817359065
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5906-5
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics