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STRUCTURALISM, FORM, AND THE INDIVIDUAL TEXT: AN INITIAL READING OF JAMES HOGG'S "CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER."
Abstract
In literary criticism, as in all intellectual endeavor, there seems to operate a cycle that moves from reduction through proliferation back to reduction and on again to proliferation. As materials, theories, approaches become too diffuse and various, they become difficult or impossible for the mind to grasp entire, and so a trend develops toward reducing diversity by means of classification, synthesis, or some other means of bringing sense to what is threatening to become chaos. Conversely, as too concentrated, too generalized syntheses threaten to inhibit practical criticism by inhibiting its flexibility and sensitivity, or begin to ossify into intolerant doctrine, one witnesses an increase in splinter-group activities and experimentation.
Subject Area
British and Irish literature
Recommended Citation
BRUDER, CHARLES HARRY, "STRUCTURALISM, FORM, AND THE INDIVIDUAL TEXT: AN INITIAL READING OF JAMES HOGG'S "CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER."" (1976). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI7625859.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI7625859