The Challenge of Periodization - Old Paradigms and New Perspectives

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Chapter 1 The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives, Lawrence Besserman; Chapter 2 The Beginnings of Chaucer's English Style, Larry D. Benson; Chapter 3 The Place of the Modern in the Late Middle Ages, Lee Patterson; Chapter 4 Reuchlin and the Jews: Obstacles on the Path to Emancipation, Heiko A. Oberman; Chapter 5 The Periodization of the Renaissance and the Question of Mannerism, Aldo Scaglione; Chapter 6, Sanford Budick; Chapter 7 A Critique of Romantic Periodization, Robert J. Griffin; Chapter 8 A Project for the Sun, Geoffrey H. Hartman; Chapter 9 Rethinking Romanticism, Jerome J. McGann; Chapter 10 Thomas Hardy: A Victorian Modernist?, H. M. Daleski; Chapter 11 Reading and Periodization: Wallace Stevens' “The Idea of Order at Key West”, J. Hillis Miller; Chapter 12 Is There a Perennial Literature?, Denis Donoghue; Chapter 13 Periodizing Modem American Poetry, Helen Vendler;

About the author

Lawrence Besserman

Summary

In these essays leading literary scholars clarify our understanding of what are traditionally but problematically called the Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romantic, Modern, and Post-modern eras in European cultural history.

Additional text

"The list of contributors contains some of the most well-respected names in the fields of Medieval, Early Modern and Modern studies." -- Literary Research

Product details

• Assisted by: Lawrence Besserman (Editor), Lawrence L. Besserman (Editor), Besserman Lawrence (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780815321033
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2103-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Garland Reference Library of t; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, History: theory & methods, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, History: theory and methods