ENGLISH LITERATURE ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY 1 - Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and Medieval Periods
Nov 2020 · Transnational Press London
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It appears that literary work possesses eternal temporal validity due to its autonomous aesthetic value, whereas criticism provides points of view having temporary and transitory significance. Despite such claims, the vector of methodology in our series of books, dealing with the history of English literature, relies on Viktor Shklovsky, T. S. Eliot, Mikhail Bakhtin, and especially Yuri Tynyanov, whose main reasoning would be that literature is a system of dominant, central and peripheral, marginalized elements – to us, “tradition” (centre) versus “innovation” (margin) engaged in a “battle” for supremacy, demarginalization, and the right to form a new literary system – and the development or historical advancement of literature is the substitution of systems. Roman Jakobson and French structuralism, on the whole, later Linda Hutcheon, with her “system” and “constant”, and Bran Nicol with the “dominant”, to say nothing about Itamar Even-Zohar and his theory of polysystem, to a certain extent Julia Kristeva, and even Homi Bhabha – as well as our humble contribution, by means of the books in the present series, we would like to believe – maintain Tynyanov’s line of thinking and concepts alive, which have developed and emerged nowadays more like a kind of “neo-formalism”.
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Petru Golban holds a PhD in English and American literature from Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. He currently teaches literary theory and English literature-related classes at Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Turkey. He is also the author of some 70 critical studies, including 10 books, among which A History of the Bildungsroman: From Ancient Beginnings to Romanticism (2018) and Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman: Its Flourishing and Complexity (2019). His research concerns encompass particular aspects of English literature, comparative literary studies, and literary theory and criticism.
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