The Complexity of the Concept of Literary Autonomy

Theoria 87 (6):1380-1396 (2021)
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Abstract

This paper is an attempt to analyse the concept of literary autonomy, to explore its various manifestations in previous and current theories of literary studies and literary aesthetics, and to fit it into a broad outlook of literature's specificity and uniqueness. It defends the idea of literature's separate identity, however, not at the expense of breaking free of the concept of meaning in the strict sense, seeking special literary value in the independence of aesthetic value from other values, or in the claim that literature has no purpose outside of itself, and then argues that such position need not be confounded with reductionism.

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