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2012
The chapters of this section cover the five periods into which American literary history is usually divided: early American literature; the American Renaissance; realism/naturalism; modernism; and postmodern and contemporary American literature.
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The chapters of this section cover the five periods into which American literary history is usually divided: early American literature; the American Renaissance; realism/naturalism; modernism; and postmodern and contemporary American literature.
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New Literary History, 1970
works, between the creative achievements of different authors, between different pasts, and between the past and the present. These matters of consideration are generally thought of as coming under the head of Literary History. Let me say at once that I'm not at all happy about what commonly comes under that head, or about what's commonly understood by
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works, between the creative achievements of different authors, between different pasts, and between the past and the present. These matters of consideration are generally thought of as coming under the head of Literary History. Let me say at once that I'm not at all happy about what commonly comes under that head, or about what's commonly understood by
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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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Journal of American Studies, 1990
Almost a quarter century ago, Cleanth Brooks told a British audience that during two years in Great Britain, "reading the reviews of books by Americans and on America," he had been "amused and almost as often shocked to see what kind of picture of America emerges.
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Almost a quarter century ago, Cleanth Brooks told a British audience that during two years in Great Britain, "reading the reviews of books by Americans and on America," he had been "amused and almost as often shocked to see what kind of picture of America emerges.
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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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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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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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