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Theoretical Issues in Literary History

Theoretical Issues in Literary History

Theoretical Issues in Literary History

Theoretical Issues in Literary History

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674879133
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 08/01/1991
Series: Harvard English Studies , #16
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Perkins is John P. Marquand Professor of English Literature, Harvard University.

Table of Contents

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:
Ausländerliteratur 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

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