Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies Tapa blanda - 2015

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Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. viii/199 pages.
"In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum has remained oddly unshaken, as if the exercise of contrasting one literary period with another has an importance that transcends the content of any individual course.
"Why Literary Periods Mattered" explains how historical contrast became central to literary study, and why it remained institutionally central in spite of critical controversy about literature itself. Organizing literary history around contrast rather than causal continuity helped literature departments separate themselves from departments of history. But critics' long reliance on a rhetoric of contrasted movements and fateful turns has produced important blind… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New. This book explains how period survey courses became central to literary study in the nineteenth century, why they remained central in the twentieth, and why, in the digital age, they may now be giving ground to alternate models of literary history.

Stanford Univ Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 199 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

Stanford Univ Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 199 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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