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Titolo: | The limits of literary historicism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox |
Pubblicazione: | Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina: | 801/.95 |
Soggetto topico: | Criticism |
Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc | |
New Historicism | |
Altri autori: | DunnAllen HaddoxThomas F (Thomas Fredrick) |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 about literary narrative. Editors Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox have gathered contributions from leading scholars that challenge the dominance |
Titolo autorizzato: | The limits of literary historicism |
ISBN: | 1-280-01070-3 |
9786613512352 | |
1-57233-831-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910789949603321 |
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