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The Uses of the Canon: Elizabethan Literature and Contemporary Theory (Clarendon Paperbacks) Book
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This treatise explores the connection between new historicism and Renaissance literature and explores its significance for English studies as a whole. It details fresh readings of a number of classic texts as well as an understanding of the complex functions of the canon itself.
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An important contribution to the current rethinking of "English," and to the reconsideration of Shakespeare's role within it, this book focuses on the emergence of the New Historicism, clarifying a number of key positions in the criticism of the past fifteen years. The essays subject many of New Historicism's most challenging claims to rigorous analysis, distinguish sharply between its American and British versions, and assess the causes and consequences of its politicization of literary studies. The theoretical and political issues at stake in current debates are clearly examined, and the uses served by the canonical texts at their center are reexamined within a broad cultural and historical perspective. Offering fresh readings of a number of classic texts--including Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Shakespeare's sonnets, More's Utopia, Donne's poetry, and Conrad's Heart of Darkness--this overview of contemporary critical theory and practice provides a deepened understanding of the complex and changing functions of the canon itself.
- 0198122659
- 9780198122654
- Howard Felperin
- 13 August 1992
- Clarendon Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 208
- New edition
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