New Directions in Literary History

First published in 1974, New Directions in Literary History is a comprehensive attempt to present approaches to literary studies that have developed from phenomenology, stylistics and linguistics, Marxist reconsiderations of literature, interdisciplinary studies and analysis of reader response.

List of contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory 2. Past Significance and Present Meaning in Literary History 3. Some Observations on Method in Literary Studies 4. The Life and Death of Literary Forms 5. History-Writing as Answerable Style 6. History and Fiction as Modes of Comprehension 7. The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach 8. The Stylistic Approach to Literary History 9. Poetry as Fiction 10. The Limits of Literature 11. Ut Pictura Noesis? Criticism in Literary Studies and Art History 12. Notes for an Anatomy of Modern Autobiography 13. Dreaming with Adam: Notes on Imaginary History

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Cohen
• Assisted by: Cohen Ralph (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032162935
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3216293-5
• No. of pages: 273
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary theory