Structure and society in literary history : studies in the history and theory of historical criticism

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Structure and society in literary history : studies in the history and theory of historical criticism

Robert Weimann

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984

Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed, Expanded ed

  • pbk.

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Originally published by the University Press of Virginia, 1976

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

In "Structure and Society in Literary History" Robert Weimann, one of Germany's leading literary theoreticians, raises important questions about the social function of literature and sketches the outlines of a new historical criticism. Weinmann's Marxist analysis relates the history of writing and reading to the history of social and economic activities; literature and art are imaginative appropriations of the world, producers as well as products of culture. Aesthetic structures-- texts-- and social function are necessarily interrelated for Weimann as they are not for the followers of the New Criticism or the practitioners of structuralism. Firmly grounded in Anglo-American and Western European criticism, Weimann presents a cogent critique of T. S. Eliot's concept of tradition, analyzes the development of American literary history, and reconsiders the interpretation of Shakespeare's imagery. A new concluding chapter, written especially for the Johns Hopkins edition, presents a coherent and systematically developed survey of those poststructuralist positions most relevant to the placement of "Structure and Society in Literary History" within the critical context of the mid 1980s.

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Preface to the Original Edition Introduction: Toward a Theory of Literary History Chapter 1. Past Significance and Present Meaning in Literary History Chapter 2. The Concept of Tradition Reconsidered Chapter 3. Past origins and Present Functions in American Literary History Chapter 4. Structuralism and Literary History Chapter 5. Metaphor and Historical Criticism: Shakespeare's Imagery Revisited Chapter 6. Structure and History in Narrative Perspective: The Problem of Point of View Reconsidered Chapter 7. Text and History: Epilogue, 1984 Index of Names

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