@article{kzm 72182, author = {Michael Boyden}, title = {De autonomisering van de twintigste-eeuwse Amerikaanse literatuurgeschiedschrijving: een systemische benadering}, volume = {57}, year = {2003}, url = {https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72182/}, issue = {0}, doi = {10.21825/kzm.v57i0.17299}, abstract = {<p>This article offers an impetus to a semantic analysis of the discipline of<br>American literary history from a systems theoretical perspective. The analysis<br>is based on a representative selection of four literary histories in the field. The<br>main argument is chat these histories make use of a double legitimization<br>strategy to authorize themselves as definitive reference works on American<br>literature. On the one hand, they significantly broaden the object of study as<br>it has been demarcated in previous works. On the other, they plead for a<br>reconnection of the study of literature to its original social mission. The function<br>of this double strategy is to assert the autonomy of American literary history.</p>}, month = {12}, pages = {5-19}, issn = {2736-2175}, publisher={Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis}, journal = {Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis} }