The Mutation of the Literary Work: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Study Guides, Projects, Research of Linguistics

From Work to Text

It is a fact that over the last few

years

a certain change has

taken

place (or

is taking

place)

in our conception oflanguage

and, consequently, of the

literary work which

its

here in a deliberately neutÍal

way: one does not decide

determination, be it multiple and dialectical). What is new

and which affects the idea of the work comes

not

lrom the internal recasting of each of these disciplines, but

rather

from their encounter

traditionally

to the mere expression of a

pious

wish) when the solidarity of the old disciplines breaks

down - perhaps

jolts of fashion

- in

the interests of a new

of which has a

place in the

field

of the sciences that

were to

be brought

together, this unease

mutation. The mutation in which the idea

of the work seems to be gripped

must not, however, be

over-estimated:

logical slide than of a real

break.

The

as is frequently

stressed,

place