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Literary History and Literary Specimens
2010“[T]oo many readers,” laments Samuel Egerton Brydges in the British Bibliographer “require to be taught how to think and to judge! It is not sufficient to give them specimens, and leave them to form their own opinions … Better a thousand times is the plodding task of copying the dullest extracts … These the profound antiquary, the philosophic ...
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Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory
New Literary History, 1970take up once again the unresolved dispute between the Marxist and formalist schools. My attempt to bridge the gap between literature and history, between historical and aesthetic approaches, begins at the point at which both schools stop. Their methods understand the literary fact in terms of the circular aesthetic system of production and of ...
Hans Robert Jauss, Elizabeth Benzinger
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2015
Abstract Literary history has had a mixed history among the readers and the writers of the European traditions. For William Warburton, an eighteenth-century ecclesiast and critic, literary history was “the most agreeable subject in the world.” However, the early nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine describes literary history as ...
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Abstract Literary history has had a mixed history among the readers and the writers of the European traditions. For William Warburton, an eighteenth-century ecclesiast and critic, literary history was “the most agreeable subject in the world.” However, the early nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine describes literary history as ...
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2018
This chapter discusses national literary histories in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific and summarises the book's main findings regarding the construction and revision of narratives of national identity since 1950. In colonial and postcolonial cultures, literary history is often based on a paradox that says much about their evolving
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This chapter discusses national literary histories in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific and summarises the book's main findings regarding the construction and revision of narratives of national identity since 1950. In colonial and postcolonial cultures, literary history is often based on a paradox that says much about their evolving
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Literary History as Cultural History
2018This chapter begins with the observation that a number of literary critics in this period express the hope that a new form of ‘cultural history’ would provide the basis for an evaluative assessment of the direction of social change. They look to those trained as critics, not to historians, for such an approach, one that tries to identify the ‘quality ...
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Literary History as National History
2016This chapter argues that the roots of Persian culture are in Persian poetry. The high esteem in which classical Persian poetry is held among Iranians is well known. This rich literary tradition provides enormous resources for a distinct Persian identity.
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Literature, Literary History, and History
1988Every book written earlier than this morning is as much a portion and parcel of the dreadful past as anything else that happened before the present moment, and at least since the eighteenth century historical writing has been amongst the most widely read forms of literature and often the most influential in creating a society’s image of itself.
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Abstract This chapter takes the ‘Discourse concerning the original and progress of satire’ that prefaced John Dryden’s translations of Juvenal and Persius (1692) as the starting point for a consideration of the relationship between two kinds of criticism: the vernacular English criticism of the early Enlightenment, and the Latinate ...
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