Theoretical Issues in Literary History
Published on 1. August 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-674-87913-3 (ISBN)
Description
Literary history, the dominant form of literary scholarship throughout the nineteenth century, is currently recapturing the imaginations of a new generation of scholars eager to focus on the context of literature after a half-century or more of "close" readings of isolated texts. This book represents current thinking on some of the theoretical issues and dilemmas in the conception and writing of literary history, expressed by a group of scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia. They consider afresh a broad range of topics: the role of literary history in "new" societies, the problem of finding a starting point for literary history, the problem of literary classification, problems of ideology, of institutional mediation, periodization, and the attack on literary history.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-87913-3 (9780674879133)
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Person
David Perkins is John P. Marquand Professor of English Literature, Harvard University.
Content
Introduction David Perkins Problems of Origin in Modern Literary History Ernst Behler Paul de Man, Modernist Ronald Bush Aristotle and the History of Tragedy Paul A. Cantor Genre Theory, Literary History, and Historical Change Ralph Cohen The Two Histories Alastair Fowler Postmodernism and Literary History John Frow Understanding Alterity: Auslanderliteratur between Relativism and Universalism Ulker Gokberk Transmission Failure Jon Klancher History, Herstory, Theirstory, Ourstory Jerome Mcgann Caliban and His Precursors: The Politics of Literary History and the Third World Michael Valdez Moses Measure and Countermeasure: The Lovejoy-Wellek Debate and Romantic Periodization Mark Parker Literary Classifications: How Have They Been Made? John Perkins Antihistoricism in Benedetto Croce and I. A. Richards John Paul Russo