THEORETISCHE ASPEKTE LITERARISCHER KOMMUNIKATION

• Authors: Gerhard Plumpe

Title variants

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Theoretical aspects of literary communication

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The article reflects on the possibilities of employing the term communication as a basic element of its theoretical constructions in the area of literary studies. The author´s departure point is the conviction that literary studies are able to accept impulses from the systems theory only on the condition of being aware of their own constructs, their own term literature. Only a theoretically confident literary scholarship, i.e., aware of its own theoretical traditions, is able to conduct a productive dialogue with the systems theory. Everything else is merely clueless theoretical imports that only mask the meaningless of own theorizing. The reference point of his reflections is the 1996 lecture by Niklas Luhmann “Literature as communication”. The author perceives this lecture as the starting point for the conceptualization of literature as communication and at the same time attempt to sketch the effects of such theorizing of literature on literary theory.

Keywords

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LITERARY COMMUNICATION; SYSTEMS THEORY; NIKLAS LUHMANN

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6 (23)
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 22 – 33

Contributors

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Gerhard Plumpe

• Germanistisches Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany