Theoretical Issues In Literary History

Author : David Perkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674879139

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Theoretical Issues in Literary History by David Perkins Pdf

Literary history, the dominant form of literary scholarship throughout the nineteenth century, is currently recapturing the imaginations of a new generation of scholars eager to focus on the context of literature after a half-century or more of "close" readings of isolated texts. This book represents current thinking on some of the theoretical issues and dilemmas in the conception and writing of literary history, expressed by a group of scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia. They consider afresh a broad range of topics: the role of literary history in "new" societies, the problem of finding a starting point for literary history, the problem of literary classification, problems of ideology, of institutional mediation, periodization, and the attack on literary history.

Author : Ralph Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000513011

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New Directions in Literary History by Ralph Cohen Pdf

First published in 1974, New Directions in Literary History is a comprehensive attempt to present approaches to literary studies that have developed from phenomenology, stylistics and linguistics, Marxist reconsiderations of literature, interdisciplinary studies and analysis of reader response. Written by an international group of scholars, the essays are taken from the pages of New Literary History. They range from the Middle Ages to contemporary literature. European and American literary critics are here represented, together with an art critic, a philosopher and a novelist. Their essays deal with crucial problems in the study of literature: the relationship of the contemporary critic to works of the past; the place of method in literary study; how reading takes place; the role of the reader in different literary periods in providing a guide to interpretation; the language of literature and its relation to natural or ordinary language; the origin and decline of literary forms; and what constitutes literature, especially in the relation between fictional character and autobiography. Although the essays are essentially concerned with theoretical issues, they also examine the practical applications to literature. Students of English literature and literary theory will find this book particularly interesting.

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 3823341715

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Literary History - Cultural History by Herbert Grabes Pdf

Author : Gunilla Lindberg-Wada
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110920550

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Studying Transcultural Literary History by Gunilla Lindberg-Wada Pdf

In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to address matters of cultural difference. In this unique volume, leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges that these developments pose to the writing of literary history. What is the object of literary history? What is the meaning of the term “world literature”? How do we compare different cultural systems of genres? How do we account theoretically for literary transculturation? What are the implications of postcolonial studies for the discipline of comparative literature? Ranging in focus from the Persian epic of Majnun Layla and Zulu praise poetry to South Korean novels and Brazilian antropofagismo, the essays offer a concise overview of these and related questions. Their aim is not to reach a consensus on these matters. They show instead what is at stake in the emergent field of global comparatism.

Author : Sascha Bru
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474409919

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Literature Now by Sascha Bru Pdf

Introduces the most important terms for understanding literature, past and present. Literature Now argues that modern literary history is currently the main site of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studies. Via 19 key terms, the book takes stock of recent scholarship and demonstrates how analyses of particular historical phenomena have modified our understanding of crucial notions like archive, book, event, media, objects, style and the senses. The book not only reveals a rich diversity of subjects and approaches but also identifies the most salient traits of literature and literary studies today. Leading literary critics and historians offer thought-provoking arguments as well as authoritative explorations of the key terms of literary studies providing students as well as scholars with a rich resource for exploring theoretical issues from a historically informed perspective. Key FeaturesOrganised around the key terms used in literary studies today: archive, book, medium, translation, subjects, senses, animals, objects, politics, time, invention, event, generation, period, beauty, mimesis, style, popular and genrePuts literary history at the forefront of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studiesOriginal chapters by leading literary critics, theorists and historians

Author : Arshad Ahammad A.,Nada Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781527570412

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Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas by Arshad Ahammad A.,Nada Rajan Pdf

The papers in this book, covering a wide range of themes such as history, globalisation, colonialism, trauma, ecology, cinema, science, post-humanism, feminisms, and alternative sexualities, explore the structures of power that bring about and contour the prevailing, stereotypical and hegemonic notions of identity, gender and culture. The focal point of these interactions is the perpetual dissemination of ideas which stimulate the knowledge system with its roots spread across diverse scholarly disciplines. This collection will be of great interest to academicians, scholars, researchers, and students, as it explores various discourses in literature, cultural studies, literary theory and film studies.

Author : Chinyere Nwahunanya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015050136780

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Issues in Literary Theory, History and Criticism by Chinyere Nwahunanya Pdf

Author : Min Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783642353895

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The Alter Ego Perspectives of Literary Historiography by Min Wang Pdf

This book mainly discusses about the alter ego perspectives in literary historiography. This comparative analysis of the major Chinese literary histories in China and in the West brings to light the alter ego perspectives of Stephen Owen in literary historiography. The most interesting part of the book will be the interpretation of new notions and perspectives proposed by Stephen Owen, especially in the newly published The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature (2010). This book gives a detailed overview about the different stages of writing Chinese literary history and the different modes of literary historiography in China and in the West. Two case studies of Chinese poems are made on the notion of discursive communities and the Cultural Tang. Readers will a better understanding about the paradigm of literary historiography and the interrelationships between the different modes of literary historiography and the intellectual history. ​

Author : Walter Haug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521341973

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Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages by Walter Haug Pdf

The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1985, and set a new agenda for the study of medieval literary theory. Rather than seeing vernacular writers' reflections on their art, such as are found in prologues, epilogues and interpolations in literary texts, as merely deriving from established Latin traditions, Walter Haug shows that they marked the gradual emancipation of an independent vernacular poetics that went hand in hand with changing narrative forms. While focussing primarily on medieval German writers, Haug also takes into account French literature of the same period, and the principles underlying his argument are equally relevant to medieval literature in English or any other European language. This ground-breaking study is now available in English for the first time.

Author : April London
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230283336

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Literary History Writing, 1770-1820 by April London Pdf

This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.

Author : Robert Weimann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783743726

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Structure and Society in Literary History by Robert Weimann Pdf

Author : Marshall Brown
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822317141

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The Uses of Literary History by Marshall Brown Pdf

In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary history. Representing a range of disciplinary specialties and approaches, these essays illustrate and debate the issues that confront scholars working on the literary past and its relation to the present. Concerned with both the theory and practice of literary history, these provocative and sometimes combative pieces examine the writing of literary history, the nature of our interest in tradition, and the ways that literary works act in history. Among the numerous issues discussed are the uses of evidence, anachronism, the dialectic of texts and contexts, particularism and the resistance to reductive understanding, the construction of identities, memory, and the endurance of the past. New historicism, nationalism, and gender studies appear in relation to more traditional issues such as textual editing, taste, and literary pedagogy. Combining new and old perspectives, The Uses of Literary History provides a broad view of the field. Contributors. Charles Altieri, Jonathan Arac, R. Howard Bloch, Richard Dellamora, Paul H. Fry, Geoffrey Hartman, Denis Hollier, Donna Landry, Lawrence Lipking, Jerome J. McGann, Walter Benn Michaels, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Virgil Nemoianu, Annabel Patterson, David Perkins, Marjorie Perloff, Meredith Anne Skura, Doris Sommer, Peter Stallybrass, Susan Stewart

Author : George Alexander Kennedy,Marshall Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052130010X

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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 5, Romanticism by George Alexander Kennedy,Marshall Brown Pdf

The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.

Author : Marina Grishakova,Silvi Salupere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317619475

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Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities by Marina Grishakova,Silvi Salupere Pdf

Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements. They fostered circulation of ideas within and between disciplines, thus altering the shape of intellectual inquiry. This volume offers a new perspective on theoretical schools in the humanities, both as generators of conceptual knowledge and as cultural phenomena. The structuralist, semiotic, phenomenological, and hermeneutical schools and circles have had a deep impact on various disciplines ranging from literary studies to philosophy, historiography, and sociology. The volume focuses on a set of loosely interrelated groups, with a strong literary, linguistic, and semiotic component, but extends to the fields of philosophy and history—the interdisciplinary conjunctions arising from a sense of conceptual kinship. It includes chapters on unstudied or less studied groups, such as Tel Aviv School of poetics and semiotics or the research group Poetics and Hermeneutics. The volume presents a significant supplement to the standard historical accounts of literary, critical, and related theory in the twentieth century. It enhances and complicates our understanding of the twentieth-century intellectual and academic history by showing schools and circles in the state of germination, dialogue, controversy, or decline, in their respective historical and institutional settings, while reaching simultaneously beyond those dense settings to the new cultural and ideological situations of the twenty-first century.

Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745678245

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Feminist Literary History by Janet Todd Pdf

In this timely book Janet Todd offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary American literary critics. She argues that this approach rightly links the political concerns of feminist criticism to the uncovering of female voices embedded in history. Todd reconstructs the development of feminist literary history from the 1960s through to the present day, highlighting the central themes as well as the strengths and weaknesses. She then examines the debate between American feminist critics, on the one hand, and feminist critics inspired by the work of French theorists such as Kristeva, Irigaray and Cixous, on the other. She defends feminist literary history against its critics and casts doubt on some of the uses of psychoanalysis in feminism. Todd also considers the debate with men and assesses the relevance of academic analyses of gender, masculinity and homosexuality. Feminist Literary History is a forceful and committed work, which addresses some of the most important issues in contemporary feminist theory and literary criticism. It will be widely read as an introductory text by students in English literature, modern languages, women's studies and cultural studies.