Literature as System Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History [Hardcover]

Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset'sHistory as a Systemand Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guill?n proposes a structural approach to literary history.

Originally published in 1971.

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