The Challenge of Periodization : Old Paradigms and New Perspectives Hardback
Edited by Lawrence Besserman
Part of the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities series
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In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: Chaucer and Medieval and Renaissance studies (Larry D.
Benson, Heiko A. Oberman, Lee Patterson, and Aldo Scaglione), and English and American literary history (Sanford Budick, H.
M. Daleski, Denis Donoghue, Robert J. Griffin, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Jerome McGann, and Helen Vendler). In addition to shedding new light on a specific author, each essay also refines or reinvigorates critical approaches to specific periods. The analyses illuminate and clarify our understanding of what are traditionally but problematically called the Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern eras in European cultural history.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:01/08/1996
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- ISBN:9780815321033
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:01/08/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780815321033
