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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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57764 |