Literary Studies in Reconstruction

Marko Juvan works at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and teaches literary theory at the University of Ljubljana. He is a member of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory and the Executive Committee of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies. His recent publications in English include Writing Literary History (co-editor, with Darko Dolinar, Peter Lang 2006) as well as a study about history and poetics of intertextuality in 2008.

Contents: Theory of Literary Discourse - Literary History between Narrative and Hypertext - World Literature(s) and Peripheries - Postmodern Textology and Electronic Media - The Structure of Literary Text and the Event of Meaning - Literariness - The Text and Genre - Stylistic Subject-Fashioning - Fiction, Reality, and Laws - Textual and Contextual Spaces - Cultural Memory and Literature

"Juvan's book is a lucid and thoughtful introduction to literary studies. Grounding his work in thorough knowledge of the history of the discipline and its current methodological concerns, Juvan helpfully reassembles a range of concepts central to the exploration and appreciation of literature. He does so fully aware of, and carefully responding to, the lessons of deconstruction and post-structuralism that have been urging us to rethink literariness, genre, style, and so many other mainstays of traditional literary studies." (Galin Tihanov, University of Manchester)

«Juvan’s book is a lucid and thoughtful introduction to literary studies. Grounding his work in thorough knowledge of the history of the discipline and its current methodological concerns, Juvan helpfully reassembles a range of concepts central to the exploration and appreciation of literature. He does so fully aware of, and carefully responding to, the lessons of deconstruction and post-structuralism that have been urging us to rethink literariness, genre, style, and so many other mainstays of traditional literary studies.» (Galin Tihanov, University of Manchester)