On Literariness: From Post-Structuralism to Systems Theory

Abstract

Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Abstract: In his article, "On Literariness: From Post-Structuralism to Systems Theory," Marko Juvan argues that the question of literariness concerns the very identity and social existence of not only literature per se but of literary theory as a discipline. A literary theorist is not only an observer of literature; he/she is also a participant who --at least indirectly, via the a priori systems of science and education --is engaged in constructing both the notion and the practice of literature as well as the study of literature. Literariness is neither an invariant cluster of "objectively" distinctive properties of all texts that are deemed literary nor is it merely a social, scholarly, and/or educational function. Rather, it can be defined as the effect of a text in the literary system, which is only possible on the basis of paradigms and conventions derived from the literary canon itself.

Portabilidade, Evanescências e Rubricas: Discussões em torno da Literatura Digital na Sala de Aula

“…Há cada vez mais a consciência de que o texto literário adquire essa qualidade pela condicionante social (Juvan, 2000), mesmo que se defenda contrariamente a existência de uma qualidade formal (caso de parte do Formalismo Russo, a Escola de Chicago, a Nova Crítica e a Imanência do texto, principalmente em Staiger e Kayser). Se a heteroglossia aventada por Bakhtin (2002: 85) caracteriza as variações tão próprias das divergências sociais e os diferentes estratos literários e não-literários, é por ela que se pode entender os processos de canonização e as tentativas de sua ampliação e/ou revisão.…”

Blog literário: alguns comentários

“…E sem sobra de dúvida, a "internet" se tornou parte do tecido social (CASTELLS, 2003, p. 255 (JUVAN, 2000). Ainda que estas perguntas sejam foco de inúmeras discussões na teoria literária dos últimos trinta ou quarenta anos, as contingências da contemporaneidade demandam esses questionamentos.…”

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“…There are even more such complex, non-exclusive definitions of literariness that are aware of the contextual conditionality on the one hand, and the fact that a literary work of art represents a meeting of the reader and the text (i.e., Kant's Ding an sich) on the other. Marko Juvan, for example, defines literariness as an "effect of the text" that "originates in a complex (systemic) interaction of mental processes, metatexts, actions, and activities related to texts" (Juvan 2000 <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol2/iss2/1/> and 2003, 92). At the same time, it is also defined in the "physiognomy of the text itself" and understood "as a convention rising from the immanent characteristics of certain literary (classical, canonized, paradigmatic) texts" (Juvan 1997, 222).…”