Uses of Literary History (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822398783
• Artikelnr.: 54793205

Autorenporträt

Marshall Brown is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface / Marshall Brown vii
Literary History
A Trout in the Milk / Lawrence Lipking 1
Literary History: Some Roads Not (Yet) Taken / VirgilN Nemoianu 13
What is the History of Literature? / Jonathan Arac 23
The Once and Future Middle Ages / R. Howard Bloch 35
Literature, Meaning, and the Discontinuity of act / Jerome J. McGann 45
Empiricism Once More / Marjorie Perloff 51
Some Prospects for Literary History / David Perkins 63
Literature in History
Public Memory and its Discontents / Geoffrey H. hartman 73
Understanding the Living and Talking to the Dead: The Historicity of
Psychoanalysis / Meredith Anne Skura 93
Figures of the Feminine: An Amazonian Revolution in Feminist Literary
History? / Donna Landry 107
Editing as Cultural Formation: The Sexing of Shakespeare's Sonnet / Peter
Stallybrass 129
Textual Politics/Sexual Politics / Richard Dellamora 143
The Pedigree of the White Stallion: Postcoloniality and Literary History /
Rukmini Bhaya Nair 159
The Victims of New Historicism / Walter Benn Michaels 187
Literature as History
Preface to a Lyric History / Susan Stewart 199
Can We Be Historical Ever? Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of Historical
Self-Consciousness / Charles Altieri 219
On Literature Considered as a Dead Language / Denis Hollier 233
More Speech on Free Speech / Annabel Patterson 243
Textual Conquests: On Readerly Competence and "Minority" Literature / Doris
Sommer 255
The Hum of Literature: Ostension in Language / Paul H. Fry 269
Contributors 289
Index 293