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Auerbach's Literary History: Figural Causation and Modernist Historicism
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Literary history and historicism
2000Literary history was created in the Romantic age. Rene Wellek traces its origins to English and Scottish intellectuals of the eighteenth century – Robert Lowth, Thomas Percy, John Brown, Thomas Warton and many another. They thought their way to the basic concepts of literary history ( The rise of English literary history , pp. 200–1).
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The Limits of Historicism: Literary Theory and Historical Understanding
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Introduction: Historicizing the American Literary West
2015The project of historicizing the American literary West and the production of regions themselves has been enormously and productively complicated by recent scholarly developments. With diaspora studies, borderlands scholarship, comparative Indigenous approaches, Pacific Rim studies, transnational feminisms, settler colonial theory, and critical ...
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“LIKE BUT UNALIKE”: ERIC SUNDQUIST AND LITERARY HISTORICISM
Modern Intellectual History, 2007Eric Sundquist, Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005)As measured by that deadly but inescapable phrase “quantity and quality,” Eric Sundquist is perhaps the most productive American literature scholar of his generation.
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STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DUTCH LITERARY HISTORICISM
2008Editing procedures for early Dutch literature went through four stages. Initially, in the eighteenth century, the main concern was the origins of the Dutch language. Next came a stage (decisively influenced by initiatives of German scholars) of collection and description with a view to the literary interest of early texts. This is the period when texts
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Historicism and Literary History: Mapping the Modern Period
New Literary History, 1979including the term literature itself-modern and period are at the same time indispensable and highly problematical. Put together in a single phrase-the modern period-they are paradoxical. Period implies an end, yet in some senses we still feel that we are living in the modern period. "When will the Modern Period end?" Ihab Hassan has asked. "Has ever a
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Remembrance of Things Past: Literary Annuals’ Self-Historicization
Victorian Poetry, 2012Literary annuals and gift books, the lavishly illustrated, richly bound anthologies of poetry and prose fashionable in England during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, attracted readers by their combination of text and pictures inside a pretty package. They typically appeared at the end of the year and were meant to be Christmas presents or
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Treating “Historical” Sources as Literary Texts: Literary Historicism and Modern British History
The Journal of Modern History, 1998In recent years, a new form of historical writing, produced in growing quantities by members of English departments, has emerged, and professional historians have been for the most part not quite sure how to respond. On the one hand, one wants to welcome the “rediscovery of history” by literary scholars; on the other, the history being rediscovered ...
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Period, History, and the Literary Art: Historicizing Amharic Novels
Northeast African Studies, 2013Abstract The period between 1960 (the failed coup) and 1974 (the successful military takeover of power), was a momentous segment of contemporary Ethiopian history. It was an era teeming with social unrest among various social classes and strata of society.
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