Anarchetypes
Why have literary works and corpuses – such as ancient Greek-Roman novels,Renaissance chivalric literature, early modern extraordinary voyages, classicalFrench and English romances, or modern fantasy – been rejected from thecanon of high literature? This volume aims at introducing the concept ofanarchetype, in contrast to the concept of archetype, in order to define the“flawed design” of texts which, contrary to the Aristotelian tradition, have noclosed structure or global organic meaning. This new-formalist approach willallow the re-evaluation of literary narrative and genres which have beenjudged by rhetors and theorists as marginal leftovers and failures devoidof aesthetic value.
