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The complex situation (how do I know what word to use in what context?) is the result of the complex history that created our modern discourse of literature: | The complex situation (how do I know what word to use in what context?) is the result of the complex history that created our modern discourse of literature: | ||
| − | * '''The debate of literature''' – till around 1750 the debate of “learning”, “scientific publications” | + | * '''The debate of literature''' – till around 1750 the debate of “learning”, “scientific publications” – '''provided''' |
:* the institutions: i.e. literary journals, literary histories, the academic debate of publications, and | :* the institutions: i.e. literary journals, literary histories, the academic debate of publications, and | ||
:* the discursive modalities: literature is “discussed” in fundamentally scholarly debates in an exchange of competing judgments which have to be supported by arguments one can defend in a discussion | :* the discursive modalities: literature is “discussed” in fundamentally scholarly debates in an exchange of competing judgments which have to be supported by arguments one can defend in a discussion | ||
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An awareness of different and not always compatible discourses pervades the field of literary studies: You cannot speak of a “first person narrator offering a monologue” referring to a poem. The first person narrator is “narratology”, the “monologue” dramatology”. Referring to a speech you can speak of an “exordium”, referring to a play you speak about the “exposition”.
The different discourses mix, yet do not completely mix within the discourse of literary criticism. A metaphor is rhetoric – it can, however, be found in a political speech, a commercial advertisement, a Shakespeare play, or a Hemmingway story etc.
The complex situation (how do I know what word to use in what context?) is the result of the complex history that created our modern discourse of literature:
- The debate of literature – till around 1750 the debate of “learning”, “scientific publications” – provided
- the institutions: i.e. literary journals, literary histories, the academic debate of publications, and
- the discursive modalities: literature is “discussed” in fundamentally scholarly debates in an exchange of competing judgments which have to be supported by arguments one can defend in a discussion
