The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre Elias Camelia
The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre Elias Camelia This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary…
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The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre Elias Camelia
This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. The fragments are categorised according to function, not author intention, and the study addresses a number of questions: What constitutes the fragment when the fragment can only be defined a posteriori? It discusses the fragment's performativity and function within a historical perspective, stretching from Heraclitus, via the German Romantics and European writers of the Modernist period, to American postmodern manifestations of the fragment.This is the first history of the fragment to appear in English, and it is also the first attempt at producing a consistent taxonomy of literary and critical fragments.
Does it acquire a name of its own, or is it labeled by Does the fragment begin on its own, or is it begun by others, writers and critics?