Revolutions of the word : intellectual contexts for the study of modern literature
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Revolutions of the word : intellectual contexts for the study of modern literature
Arnold, 1997
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780340645598
Description
Literary texts are revived and reformulated by each generation of readers, who bring their own historical understanding to bear on the writing of the past. This reader grapples with attempts to understand the way in which the past is continually rewritten in the present. It provides a collection of manifestos, essays and excerpts which offer access to important intellectual contexts which have helped to shape the production and reception of 20th-century literature. The texts have been grouped according to theses, methodologies and historical movements, with a short, explicatory, introductory essay with each section. The sections thereafter are arranged conceptually, but broadly chronologically, so as to show the various intellectual shifts of the century which have affected the writing and criticism of literature.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Revolutions of the world - looking back on "The Modern Tradition"
- language or the revolution of the word
- revolution of the word - knowledge. Part 2 Documents, essays, manifestos - manifestos and periodizations
- society and self
- urbanization and mass society
- national identities
- war
- narratives of the self
- gender and sexuality
- art, belief and value
- the sacred and profane
- commitment
- myth, tradition and innovation
- aesthetics and ethics
- theories and varieties of knowledge
- epistemologies
- philosophies of science and critiques of mind
- time and space
- representation and the image.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780340645604
Description
Literary texts are revived and reformulated by each generation of readers, who bring their own historical understanding to bear on the writing of the past. This reader grapples with attempts to understand the way in which the past is continually rewritten in the present. It provides a collection of manifestos, essays and excerpts which offer access to important intellectual contexts which have helped to shape the production and reception of 20th-century literature. The texts have been grouped according to theses, methodologies and historical movements, with a short, explicatory, introductory essay with each section. The sections thereafter are arranged conceptually, but broadly chronologically, so as to show the various intellectual shifts of the century which have affected the writing and criticism of literature.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Revolutions of the world - looking back on "The Modern Tradition"
- language or the revolution of the word
- revolution of the word - knowledge. Part 2 Documents, essays, manifestos - manifestos and periodizations
- society and self
- urbanization and mass society
- national identities
- war
- narratives of the self
- gender and sexuality
- art, belief and value
- the sacred and profane
- commitment
- myth, tradition and innovation
- aesthetics and ethics
- theories and varieties of knowledge
- epistemologies
- philosophies of science and critiques of mind
- time and space
- representation and the image.
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