TY - BOOK AU - Marko Juvan PY - 2012 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783653010312 TI - Literary Studies in Reconstruction T2 - An Introduction to Literature DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-01031-2 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1045759 N2 - 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. KW - Cultural studies, Poststructuralism, Comparative literature, Slovenian literature LA - English ER -