The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics /

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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Thomas, Brook,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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