Overview
- Gives a concrete application to the concept of paratopia in literature
- Fills a gap in the English-language field of literary analysis
- Relevant to contemporary fields such as women's studies, post-colonial studies and translingual studies
Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents Maingueneau’s notion of paratopia and its application to literary discourse. Unlike most discourse analysts, who pay little attention to literature, the author argues that a discourse analytical perspective allows us to challenge the usual separation between textual and contextual approaches to works.
Considered as an impossible belonging, paratopia is a condition of possibility of literature, of the subjects who occupy a writer's position and of the use they make of language. To find their place as creators, writers must elaborate their own paratopia, they must give it shape and meaning. Their works must both construct a certain world and, through paratopic shifters, reflect and legitimise the conditions of their own appearance.
Paratopia is an invariant of literature, but it takes different forms throughout history: writers draw on their paratopic potential to appropriate the resources made available tothem by literary discourse in their own time. Today, the development of digital technologies and research on gender prompts us to take a different look at traditional forms of paratopia.
The corpus includes canonical and recent texts, mainly from Western literature. It will be of interest to students and scholars in literary studies, discourse studies (discourse theory and discourse analysis), and sociology of culture.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dominique Maingueneau is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Sorbonne Université, France. His research focuses on discourse analysis.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paratopia
Book Subtitle: Literature as Discourse
Authors: Dominique Maingueneau
Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50970-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50969-8Published: 01 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50970-4Published: 31 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-5990
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 156
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Literary Theory, Sociology of Culture, Social Anthropology