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*what authorial positions can be observed
*what authorial positions can be observed
*out of what genres (e.g. traditional histories of literature, histories of poetry, histories of fiction) did our modern histories of literature evolve?
*out of what genres (e.g. traditional histories of literature, histories of poetry, histories of fiction) did our modern histories of literature evolve?
[[Category:Seminar Idea|Literature]]

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Histories of (English) Literature deal with the evolution of literature. We do not normally see them as texts we could again read as representatives of a literary genre.

The seminar could read 19th- and 20th century histories of literature and ask for predecessors of the genre.

  • how did the poltlines develop?
  • what authorial positions can be observed
  • out of what genres (e.g. traditional histories of literature, histories of poetry, histories of fiction) did our modern histories of literature evolve?