Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Anarchetypes --   Corin Braga -- 2 Anarchetypal Novels of Late Antiquity --   Corin Braga -- 3 At the Margins of French Classical Aesthetics: the Novel and ‘Non-canonised’ Literature in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France --   Radu Toderici -- 4 The Anarchetypal Drift of Novelistic Form in the Long Eighteenth Century --   Carmen Borbély -- 5 Fantasy Literature: an (An)archetypological Approach --   Marius Conkan -- 6 Maximalist Novels with Anarchetypal Tendencies in Postmodernism --   Alex Văsieș -- 7 Brain Maps, Visions and Dreams in Mircea Cărtărescu’s Anarchetypal Fiction --   Ruxandra Cesereanu -- 8 (Post)Modern Wanderers: Anarchetypal Literary Journeys across North America --   Maria Barbu -- 9 Lost Maps of Social Space: Walking the Memory Routes of Flânerie --   Călina Părău -- 1 Nomadic Writing: the ‘Swamp of Memory’ and Literature as Ordered Chaos --   Laura T. Ilea -- Index Nominum.

Why have literary works and corpuses — such as ancient Greek-Roman novels, Renaissance chivalric literature, early modern extraordinary voyages, classical French and English romances, or modern fantasy — been rejected from the canon of high literature? This volume aims at introducing the concept of anarchetype, in contrast to the concept of archetype, in order to define the “flawed design” of texts which, contrary to the Aristotelian tradition, have no closed structure or global organic meaning. This new-formalist approach will allow the re-evaluation of literary narrative and genres which have been judged by rhetors and theorists as marginal leftovers and failures devoid of aesthetic value. Contributors are: Maria Barbu, Carmen Borbély, Corin Braga, Ruxandra Cesereanu, Marius Conkan, Laura T. Ilea, Călina Părău, Radu Toderici, and Alex Văsieș.

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