%0 Book %A Marko Juvan %D 2012 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9783653010312 %T Literary Studies in Reconstruction %B An Introduction to Literature %R 10.3726/978-3-653-01031-2 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1045759 %X The identity and relevance of literary studies require a conceptual and institutional reconstruction in response to the global reshaping and commodification of knowledge. The author thus proposes a theory of literary discourse and literary history that take into account literariness as an important socio-cultural phenomenon and revisits several critical concepts, such as world literature, literary text, genre, style, fiction, literary space, and cultural memory. %K Cultural studies, Poststructuralism, Comparative literature, Slovenian literature %G English