{"product_id":"basic-concepts-of-poetics-paperback","title":"Basic Concepts of Poetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmil Staiger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarianne Burkhard\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLuanne T. Frank\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmil Staiger (1908-1987), a native of Switzerland, was one of the foremost scholars in the field of literary studies. \u003ci\u003eGrundbegriffe der Poetik\u003c\/i\u003e is a monument in the history of literary criticism that has been unavailable to the English reader until now. Of Staiger's works, \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e is probably the most radical, the most disruptive, for it constructs a revolutionary new poetics and erects it alongside the old traditional Aristotelian one. Here Staiger challenges the usefulness of the most distinguished of Western literary critical paradigms, the genre theory, that since the eighteenth century has been part of critics' indispensable theoretical equipment--a sort of literary sine qua non. In its stead, Staiger proposes to explain literary genres on the basis of fundamental patterns of literary creativity. He selects his examples from various European literary traditions, thus engaging the scholar as well as the comparatist in national literatures. By choosing an inductive method, he speaks to all concerned with literary values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her introduction, Luanne Frank establishes how the \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e mediates between those modes of criticism current in the 1940s and those of the 1980s, as well as between those held by European scholars and those embraced by American scholars. Frank places Staiger's work within the history of genre criticism from an American perspective, defines its goals and merits, and formulates a critical response long overdue in Europe and most welcome in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanette C. Hudson is a lecturer in the German department at the University of Virginia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuanne Frank is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarianne Burkhard has published widely in the fields of German and Swiss literature and women in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754098884896,"sku":"9780271027807","price":73.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3f0ae7a60b79d4c8956596535bd244a2.webp?v=1780033377","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/basic-concepts-of-poetics-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}