03317nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001400169072002300183072001300206100007800219245013600297250001800433264007900451300004500530336002600575337002600601338003600627347002400663505032300687520128801010650001302298650003902311650003802350650003802388650002502426650002402451650002202475650002902497650003402526650002402560650002502584710003402609773002602643776003602669776003602705776003602741856004602777978-3-031-53326-6DE-He21320251030112617.0cr nn 008mamaa240707s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315332667 a10.1007/978-3-031-53326-62doi 4aPN3311-3503 7aF2bicssc 7aFIC0000002bisacsh 7aF2thema1 aSchilling, Erik.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aTheorizing Literatureh[electronic resource] :bLiterary Theory in Contemporary Novels – and Their Analysis /cby Erik Schilling.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIII, 207 p. 10 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1) Introduction -- 2) Second-order literary theory -- 3) Narrating literary theory -- 4) The fragile relationship of author, reader, and Text -- 5) Topics in/of theory -- 6) Creating and interpreting fictional worlds -- 7) Beyond novels – beyond theory? -- 8) Extrapolating theory from literature -- 9) Bibliography.  aThis book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent Binet’s The 7th Function of Language, Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Patricia Duncker’s Hallucinating Foucault, Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, David Lodge’s Small World, and Juli Zeh’s Dark Matter. Erik Schilling shows how these works not only incorporate elements of theory in playful, intertextual ways, but productively work with theory – for instance, by elaborating the complexities of the roles of author and reader or by confronting the quest for meaning with an infinite network of signs. Schilling argues that the novels do not merely adopt theory; they create theory – and this theorizing literature requires new forms of interpretation. Erik Schilling teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Munich, Germany. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard and Oxford and, in 2020, he was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prize of the German Research Foundation. He is the author of Authenticity: The Career of a Longing (2020) and The Historical Novel since Postmodernism: Umberto Eco and German Literature (2012). 0aFiction. 0aLiteraturexHistory and criticism. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aLiterature, Modernx21st century. 0aEuropean literature.14aFiction Literature.24aLiterary History.24aContemporary Literature.24aTwentieth-Century Literature.24aLiterary Criticism.24aEuropean Literature.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303153325908iPrinted edition:z978303153327308iPrinted edition:z978303153328040uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53326-6