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The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory: Literary Investigations in Historical Methods and Theory (Clarendon Paperbacks) Book

With emphasis on the theoretical and methodological, the studies collected here serve a dual purpose: to explore the fault lines that mark various kinds of ahistorical literary studies from New Criticism to Poststructuralism; and to develop a fully elaborated socio-historical criticism for literary works. McGann moves toward his goal by means of four special sets of investigations: the relation between the so-called "autonomous" poem and its political/historical contexts; the relation of reception and history to literary interpretation; the problems of canon and the characterization of period; and the ideological dimensions of both literary works and criticism of such works. Central to his enquiry is the notion that, whether viewed as an experience or as an event, a literary work is a nexus of various concrete social determinations that can be specified as an aesthetic order.Read More

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  • 0198117507
  • 9780198117506
  • Jerome J. McGann
  • 4 August 1988
  • Clarendon Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 364
  • Reprint
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