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- Title
Anti-Mimeticism, Autonomy of the World of Literary Discourse.
- Authors
Farsi, Roghayeh; Dehnad, Vida
- Abstract
The central discussion of this paper proceeds as a counterargument to Johansen's (2002) discursal view of literature. Our premise is that literature can be appraised rather as an autonomous composite of discourses not reducible to the idea of mimetic representation of a reality. In line with such a postulation, we duly present four main perspectives to counter granularity, mimeticity, linearity, and institutionalization of literature as advocated by Johansen. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's (1994) notion of the virtual, we further take the world of literature as a virtual macrocosm setting up a paradoxical relation with the actual world. This feature leads us to approach literature not as a discourse but as a metadiscourse. The discussion on the metadiscursivity of literature features it with interdiscursivity and intertextuality. The paper concludes that far from analogizing the actual world, the virtual metadiscourse of literature runs parallel to the real world in an attempt to otherwise it.
- Subjects
LITERATURE; MIMETIC words; LANGUAGE &; languages; INTERTEXTUALITY; SEMIOTICS
- Publication
IUP Journal of English Studies, 2017, Vol 12, Issue 2, p7
- ISSN
0973-3728
- Publication type
Article