TY  - JOUR
A1  - Harst, Joachim
A1  - Moser, Christian
A1  - Simonis, Linda
T1  - Languages of theory : introduction
T2  - Komparatistik : Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
N2  - In recent years, the interest in theory which has once been a moving force of academic research in the field of literary studies appears to have decreased. The status of theory, its relevance and appropriateness for the understanding of literature have been put into doubt. Faced with this observation, some critics have even suggested that we have now entered into a new era of research which can retrospectively be identified as the era "after theory". Against the background of such pronouncements and to a certain extent in opposition to them, the investigations proposed here wish to uphold the idea of the utility and indeed the need for theoretical approaches to literature. To appreciate the status of theory and its possible contribution to a deepened understanding of literature, it is useful not to focus exclusively on the distinction or supposed divide between literature and theory. Instead we should pay attention to what links and unites them. This common ground or common denominator of literature and theory consists in the dimension of language. Furnishing, so to speak, the intellectual material from which both domains of articulation are formed, language constitutes at once the key element of literature and a principal concern of theory.
KW  - Literaturtheorie
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51856
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-518563
SN  - 978-3-8498-1292-8
SN  - 1432-5306
VL  - 2017
SP  - 16
EP  - 18
PB  - Aisthesis Verlag
CY  - Bielefeld
ER  -