Brook Thomas

The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691233208
• Artikelnr.: 61622683

Autorenporträt

Brook Thomas is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.

Rezensionen

Thomas is especially interesting when he reaches beyond the language of critical discourse to treat larger issues like the battle over "great books' and the current blaming of liberals for the decline in Western values.