Literature As Document
Subtitle: Generic Boundaries in 1930s Western Literature
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789004384248
Subjects: Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century; Literature, philosophy
Description: Literature as Document' considers the relationship between documents and literary texts in Western Literature of the 1930s. More specifically, the volume deals with the notion of the "document" and its multifaceted and complex connections to literary "texts" and attempts to provide answers to the problematic nature of that relationship. In an effort to determine a possible theoretical definition, many different disciplines have been taken into account, as well as individual case studies. In order to observe dynamics and trends, the idea for this investigation was to look at literature, taking its practices, its factual-looking and concrete applications, as a point of departure - that is to say, then, starting from the literary object itself.