Helmut Lethen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Helmut Lethen is involved.

Title

Convention and Innovation in Literature

Edited by Theo D’haen, Rainer Grübel and Helmut Lethen

This work is a critical evaluation of the concepts of convention and innovation as applied in the study of changing literary values, hierarchies and canons. Two approaches are analyzed: (1) the linking of convention and the subject's awareness of convention, and (2) systems theory. The merits of… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 24] 1989. xxii, 434 pp.

Articles

D’haen, Theo, Rainer Grübel and Helmut Lethen 1989 Introduction: The decline and rise of convention Convention and Innovation in Literature, D’haen, Theo, Rainer Grübel and Helmut Lethen (eds.), pp. vii–xxii | Miscellaneous

Geyer-Ryan, Helga and Helmut Lethen 1989 The rhetoric of forgetting: Brecht and the historical avant-garde Convention and Innovation in Literature, D’haen, Theo, Rainer Grübel and Helmut Lethen (eds.), pp. 305–348 | Article

Lethen, Helmut 1986 Modernism cut in half: The exclusion of the avant-garde and the debate on postmodernism Approaching Postmodernism: Papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism, 21–23 September 1984, University of Utrecht, Fokkema, Douwe W. † and Hans Bertens (eds.), pp. 233–238 | Article