The new historicism : and other old-fashioned topics /
Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United Sta...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1991.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Fair Warning
- Chapter 2. The New Historicism in a Postmodern Age
- Chapter 3. A Postmodern Modernity?
- Chapter 4. The Uses and Abuses of a Pragmatic Past
- Chapter 5. Walter Benn Michaels and Cultural Poetics: Where's the Difference?
- Chapter 6. Literature: Work or Play?
- Chapter 7. Stephen Greenblatt and the Limits of Mimesis for Historical Criticism
- Notes
- Index