Historical Studies and Literary Criticism - Hardcover

Historical Studies and Literary Criticism.

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover with dustjacket. Zustand: Gut. IX, 298 p. Schutzumschlag in Klarsichtfolie eingeschlagen, Schutzumschlag berieben, kleine Flecken auf Vorderschnitt, Bleistiftanmerkungen auf Vorsatz, sonst gut und sauber / dust jacket wrapped in clear plastic wrap, dust jacket rubbed, small stain on fore-edge, pencil annotations on endpapers, otherwise good and clean. - For the past fifty years literary studies and criticism have been dominated by formalist, structural and text-centered approaches. The editor of this volume, Jerome J. McGann, has been arguing in recent years for more expansive and contextual procedures. In this collection of essays he has brought together a group of distinguished collaborators including Terry Eagleton, Marilyn Butler, Cecil Lang, and Sandra Gilbert whose work emphasizes the importance of social and historical methodologies for the study of literary texts. Representing a variety of viewpoints and critical strategies, these critics together demonstrate the sociohistorical dimensions of literary works, provide examples of how studies of such literary works might be pursued, and suggest some central areas of investigation. The resulting effort to reconstitute some vital and neglected critical approaches will engage students and scholars of literature, and move them to reassess current critical assumptions. Fundamental to this collection is the sense that literary texts are more than self-enclosed verbal constructs. In his introduction to the essays, editor McGann examines how and why the concept of referentiality fell into disfavor with modern literary schools. The antihistorical bias of the New Critics, Structuralists, and Deconstructionists, he argues, ultimately limit their critical vision. For literature, McGann stresses, has various points of reference to a larger world of social interactions and historical influences; only by recognizing and reconstructing that world can we mine the full meaning, and communicative potential, of a fictional work. McGann's collaborators justify this argument through their essays, each originally presented at the 1984 Caltech-Weingart Conference in the Humanities. While representing a range of perspectives from Marxist to Feminist these critics are linked by their avowedly sociohistorical approach to literature. The outcome is a vigorous, lucid collection that signals a reemerging critical perspective. / Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: A Point of Reference jerome j. Mcgann I. Historical Methods and Literary Interpretations Against Tradition: The Case for a Particularized Historical Method MARILYN BUTLER Wordsworth s Intimations Ode: A Timely Utterance marjorie LEVINSON Reconstructed Folktales as Literary Sources bruce a. ROSENBERG IL Scholarship and Ideology Scholarship and Ideology: Joseph Bedier s Critique of Romantic Medievalism hans aarsleff Ideology and Scholarship terry eagleton The Politics of English Studies in the British University, 1960-1984 JOHN SUTHERLAND HI. Biographical Contexts and the Critical Object Narcissus Jilted: Byron, Don Juan, and the Biographical Imperative cecil y. lang Life, Death, and Other Theories lawrence lipking A Rose in Context: The Daughter Construct Barbara clarke MOSSBERG IV. Defining a Context: The Example of Women s Studies Engorging the Patriarchy nina auerbach "Forward Into the Past": The Complex Female Affiliation Complex SANDRA M. GILBERT and SUSAN GUBAR Paradise Reconsidered: Edens without Eve susan morgan Conference Program Index. ISBN 9780299102807 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 637. Artikel-Nr. 1200134

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