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Assessing major critics from Vernon Parrington to Murray Krieger, Wesley Morris points the way to a "new historicism." He outlines traditional historicist interests in American literary theory and draws from them the foundation for a vital new study of literature. As Mr. Morris shows, howe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morris, Wesley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1397
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism > United States.
Historicism.
Literature and history > United States.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Chapter I. Toward a Discrimination of Historicisms
  • Chapter II. Literary History and Literary Criticism Literature's Dual Mode o£ Existence
  • Part I. The American Historicist Tradition
  • Chapter III. Vernon Louis Parrington An Argument for Historicism
  • Chapter IV. American Marxian Literary Theory The Search for Critical Certainty
  • Chapter V. The Creative Mind and Literary Prophecy The Critical Heritage of Van Wyck Brooks
  • Part II. The Rediscovery of Historicism
  • Chapter VI. John Crowe Ransom: Principles for a New Historicism
  • Chapter VII. The Meeting of Opposites, I
  • Chapter VIII. Roy Harvey Pearce: The Revitalizing of Historicism
  • Chapter IX. The Meeting of Opposites, II
  • Chapter X. Murray Krieger: The Ambition of a New Historicism
  • Chapter XI. Toward a New Historicism
  • Notes
  • A List of Works Cited
  • Index

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