Social Values and Poetic Acts : : The Historical Judgment of Literary Work / / Jerome J. McGann.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1988
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (279 p.) :; 1 halftone
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. A NEW JERUSALEM: THE HISTORICAL WORK OF IMAGINATION
  • 1. PLATO AND THE DIALECTIC OF CRITICISM
  • 2. BLAKE AND THE AESTHETICS OF DELIBERATE ENGAGEMENT
  • 3. THE DAWN OF THE INCOMMENSURATE
  • 4. POETIC IDEOLOGY AND NONNORMATIVE TRUTH
  • PART II. ADVERSE WHEELS: LITERATURE AND THE WORK OF KNOWING
  • 5. BEGINNING AGAIN: LITERARY STUDIES AND THE CRISIS OF LEGITIMATION
  • 6. THE SCANDAL OF REFERENTIALITY
  • 7. SOME FORMS OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE
  • 8. THE IDEA OF AN INDETERMINATE TEXT: BLAKE'S BIBLE OF HELL AND DR. ALEXANDER GEDDES
  • 9. ULYSSES AS A POSTMODERN WORK
  • PART III. LITERATURE AND THE FUTURE OF HISTORY
  • 10. CONTEMPORARY POETRY, ALTERNATE ROUTES
  • 11. THE THIRD WORLD OF CRITICISM
  • CONCLUSION: THE LOSS OF POETRY
  • NOTES
  • INDEX