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The limits of literary historicism /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dunn, Allen, Haddox, Thomas F. (Thomas Fredrick)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 45.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.