How Literature Enters Life

An Introduction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4376142
AutoresEls Andringa, Margrit Schreier (0009-0000-4507-7923)
Año2004
Volumen25
Número2
Páginas161-169
Fecha de publicación2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/03335372-25-2-161
OpenAlexW2107453022
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas9

In 1994, a collection of articles was published under the title Critical Reconstructions: The Relationship of Fiction and Life (edited by Robert M. Polhemus and Roger B. Henkle) dealing with the relationship between works of fiction and historical ‘‘reality,’’ general ‘‘truth,’’ or an author’s personal life. In many of the chapters, questions of representation and interpretation of the (historical) world constitute the point of departure: how, for example, the composition of a work may reflect social reality or the author’s struggle for life. ‘‘Life’’ in this book is the historical or personal world fromwhich a work derives or to which it refers. If we assume that there exist manifold relationships between ‘‘literature’’ and ‘‘life,’’ ranging from cases of ‘‘life’’ entering ‘‘literature’’ at the one end to cases of ‘‘literature’’ entering ‘‘life’’ at the other, then the subtitle of that bookmight have been ‘‘HowLifeEnters Literature.’’ The ‘‘relationship of fiction and life’’ is approached there from a sociohistorical or biographical perspective, and reception data are mentioned only

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