Description
This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Tracing the changing functions of the literary list across time, it offers a broad range of case studies which situate selected enumerations in their respective contexts and demonstrate the versatility and creative potential of the list form. Starting with a review of previous research on the literary list, the book discusses four main constellations of enumeration: series and the great chain of being; itemization and enumerative realism; 'letteracettera' and experimental list-making; 'white noise' and creative exploits of enumeration between formal playfulness and existential exploration. The epilogue offers an analytical toolkit for the study of literary lists based on rhetorical theory.
Author: Roman Alexander Barton, Eva Von Contzen, Anne Rüggemeier
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/24/2023
Pages: 141
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9783031283710
ISBN10: 3031283716
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
About the Author
Roman Alexander Barton is a research fellow on the ERC-funded project "LISTLIT: Lists in Literature and Culture" at Freiburg University, Germany. His research interests include theories of literary representation, affective poetics and the ethics of the novel.
Eva von Contzen is Junior Professor of English Literature and the Principal Investigator of "LISTLIT: Lists in Literature and Culture" at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is author of The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration (2016) and is currently writing a monograph on epic catalogues in English literary history.
Anne Rüggemeier is a research fellow on the ERC-funded project "LISTLIT: Lists in Literature and Culture" at Freiburg University, Germany. Her research interests include life writing, cultural narratology, graphic novels, narrative medicine and the field of literature and knowledge.