Paracanonic activities : a pragmatics and a poetics

Overview: This dissertation proposes that certain texts, positioned para-canonically at ambiguous thresholds of valuation, insistently infract on what Roland Barthes would term the “mythologies” of literary canons. While functioning as paracanonic, texts are anti-emblems of privileged aesthetic cert...

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Main Author: Mancini, Donato François William Mancini
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57764