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Titolo |
The limits of literary historicism / / edited by Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-01070-3 |
9786613512352 |
1-57233-831-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Collana |
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Tennessee studies in literature ; ; v. 45 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DunnAllen |
HaddoxThomas F (Thomas Fredrick) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Criticism |
Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
New Historicism |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: The enigma of critical distance; or, why historicists need convictions / Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox -- Pt. 1. The limits of historicism -- the historicization of literary studies / Jane Gallop -- The children of New Historicism: literary scholarship, professionalization, and the will to publish / Rebecca Munson and Claude Willan -- Faithful historicism and philosophical semi-retirement / Amy J. Elias -- Pt. 2. Engagements with history -- Fiction as history: Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition as source material / Bruce Plourde -- Bayard Taylor and the limits of Orientalism / Christoph Irmscher -- The prehistory of posthistoricism / Jeffrey Insko -- Pt. 3. Alternatives to history modernism and the aesthetics of cultural studies / R. M. Berry -- Why modernist claims for autonomy matter / Charles M. Altieri. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Limits of Literary Historicism is a collection of essays arguing that historicism, which has come to dominate the professional study of literature in recent decades, has become ossified. By drawing attention to the limits of historicism-its blind spots, overreach, and reluctance to acknowledge its commitments-this provocative new book seeks a clearer understanding of what historicism can and cannot teach us |
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