Author: Harold Veeser
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: historicism, new
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1989-04-28
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0415900700
ISBN-13: 9780415900706

Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick descriptions" seize upon an event or anecdote--colonist John Rolfe’s conversation with Pocohontas’s father, a note found among Nietzsche’s papers to the effect that "I have lost my umbrella"--and re-read it to reveal through the analysis of tiny particulars the motive forces controlling a whole society. Contributors: Stephen J. Greenblatt, Louis A. Montrose, Catherine Gallagher, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Gerald Graff, Jea

Author: Morera
Publisher: Other
Keywords: historicism, gramscis
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1990-03-16
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0415035406
ISBN-13: 9780415035408

As Gramsci’s reputation as a key social thinker grows, this timely study is the first to concentrate on Gramsci’s concept of historicism. Morera’s comprehensive work presents many ideas and arguments not previously available in English. This book should be of interest to students and teachers in sociology and politics.

Author: Harold Veeser
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: reader, historicism, new
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1993-11-18
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0415907829
ISBN-13: 9780415907828

The New Historicism Reader documents the New Historicists’ multiplex achievement, spanning Renaissance and Reagan studies, American realism, English romanticism, gender studies, feminism, and communications and rhetoric.Harold Veeser’s introduction locates allies and opponents, surveys related fields, and identifies now-emerging New Historicist themes: the go-between, hybridization, embarrassment, autobiographical moves and personal writing. His selected bibliography gives access to a wealth of literature devoted to theorizing and attacking New Historicism, a phrase that--if it lac

Author: William J. Palmer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: historicism, new, dickens
Number of Pages: 203
Published: 1997-12-15
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0312174276
ISBN-13: 9780312174279

Throughout his work, Charles Dickens focused upon the definition, composition, and democratizing of the process of writing history. In Dickens and New Historicism, William J. Palmer takes as his point of departure the New Historicist critical theories articulated by Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hayden White, Dominick LaCapra and others, and offers a critical analysis of Dickens’s complete body of work. Palmer reveals that not only did Dickens give voice to the marginalized participants in the history of the eighteenth century and of his own contemporary Victorian age, but evolved a

Author: Paul Hamilto
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: idiom, critical, new, historicism
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-07-23
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415290090
ISBN-13: 9780415290098

This is the essential introduction to a crucial concept in literary studies. Fully updated in this second edition, Historicism enables readers to understand and apply historicist approaches in their own studies.

Author: Paul Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: idiom, critical, new, historicism
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-07-23
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0415290104
ISBN-13: 9780415290104

This is the essential introduction to a crucial concept in literary studies. Fully updated in this second edition, Historicism enables readers to understand and apply historicist approaches in their own studies.

Author: Brook Thomas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: topics, fashioned, old, historicism, new
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1993-03-08
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0691015074
ISBN-13: 9780691015071

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.