The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics / / Brook Thomas.
Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United Sta...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Fair Warning -- Chapter 2. The New Historicism in a Postmodern Age -- Chapter 3. A Postmodern Modernity? -- Chapter 4. The Uses and Abuses of a Pragmatic Past -- Chapter 5. Walter Benn Michaels and Cultural Poetics: Where's the Difference? -- Chapter 6. Literature: Work or Play? -- Chapter 7. Stephen Greenblatt and the Limits of Mimesis for Historical Criticism -- Notes -- Index |
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| Summary: | Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United States. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780691233208 9783110442496 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9780691233208?locatt=mode:legacy |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Brook Thomas. |