Predicting the past : the paradoxes of American literary history /

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Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyden, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2009]
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden resists the utopian impulse to offer supposedly definitive solutions for the legitimation crises besetting American literature studies by ""going beyond"" its inherited racist, classist, and sexist underpinnings. Approaching the existence of the American literary tradition as a typically modern probl.
Descripción Física:1 electronic resource (214 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-204) and index.
ISBN:9789461660107
9461660103

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