Routledge Revivals: New Directions in Literary History (1974)

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-56073-4
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1974, New Directions in Literary History is a collection of theoretical essays on literary history written by an international group of scholars. It is the first comprehensive attempt to present the approaches to literary history that have developed from phenomenology, from stylistics to linguistics, from Marxist reconsiderations of literature, from interdisciplinary studies, and from analyses of audience response. The essays deal with crucial problems in the study of literature: the relation of the contemporary critic to the works of the past, the place of method in literary study, and the role of readers of different periods in providing a guide to interpretation. Works from the Middle Ages to contemporary literature are discussed by the contributors, who do not neglect the practical implications of the theoretical issues treated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Ralph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors; Introduction – Ralph Cohen; 1. Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory – Hans Robert Jauss 2. Past Significance and Present Meaning in Literary History – Robert Weimann 3. Some Observations on Method in Literary Studies - D. W. Robertson, Jr 4. The Life and Death of Literary Forms – Alastair Fowler 5. History – Writing as Answerable Style – Geoffrey H. Hartman 6. History and Fiction as Modes of Comprehension – Louis O. Mink 7. The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach – Wolfgang Iser 8. The Stylistic Approach to Literary History – Michael Riffaterre 9. Poetry as Fiction – Barbara Herrnstein Smith 10. The Limits of Literature – Henryk Markiewicz 11. Ut Pictura Noesis? Criticism in Literary Studies and Art History – Svetlana and Paul Alpers 12. Notes for an Anatomy of Modern Autobiography – Francis R. Hart 13. Dreaming with Adam: Notes on Imaginary History – George Garrett