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In these lectures, delivered at Harvard University in March 1983, the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism are discussed in semiotic terms, based on a contrastive analysis of semantic and syntactical (compositional) features. They present the major results of research into the literary conventions of Modernism (Gide, Larbaud, V. Woolf, du Perron, Th. Mann) and the innovations of Postmodernism (Borges, Fuentes, Barthelme, Calvino, Hermans). The investigation of innovation in literary history is based on a concept of literary evolution, launched by the Russian Formalists and elaborate

Literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- 82.015.9 --- 82.09 --- 82.09 Literaire kritiek --- Literaire kritiek --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- anno 1900-1999 --- Littérature --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc --- Modernistische leeterkunde. (Versch. onderwerpen) --- Postmodernisme [Kunst en letterkunde]. (Versch. onderwerpen) --- Littérature. Histoire. 19e-20e s. (Mélanges) --- Postmodernisme [Art et littérature]. (Mélanges) --- Littérature moderniste. (Mélanges) --- Letterkunde. Geschiedenis. 19e-20e eeuw. (Versch. onderwerpen) --- Literature History and criticism --- Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc