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Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies
por Ted Underwood
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- 0804795266
- ISBN 13
- 9780804795265
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Brooktondale, New York, United States
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Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. viii/199 pages.
"In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum has remained oddly unshaken, as if the exercise of contrasting one literary period with another has an importance that transcends the content of any individual course.
"Why Literary Periods Mattered" explains how historical contrast became central to literary study, and why it remained institutionally central in spite of critical controversy about literature itself. Organizing literary history around contrast rather than causal continuity helped literature departments separate themselves from departments of history. But critics' long reliance on a rhetoric of contrasted movements and fateful turns has produced important blind spots in the discipline. In the twenty-first century, Underwood argues, literary study may need digital technology in particular to develop new methods of reasoning about gradual, continuous change."
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- Livreiro
- Palimpsest Scholarly Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 2668
- Título
- Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies
- Autor
- Ted Underwood
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 0804795266
- ISBN 13
- 9780804795265
- Editorial
- Stanford University Press
- Data de publicação
- 2013
- Palavras-chave
- Cultural Studies, English Literature
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