Paratopia: Literature as Discourse

by Dominique Maingueneau

This book presents Maingueneau's notion of paratopia and its application to literary discourse. Unlike most discourse analysts, who pay little attention to literature, the author argues that a discourse analytical perspective allows us to challenge the usual separation between textual and contextual approaches to works.

Considered as an impossible belonging, paratopia is a condition of possibility of literature, of the subjects who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031509692
• ISBN13: 9783031509698
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"