Is Literary History Possible?

ISBN-13: 9780801847158 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 208 str.

David Perkins

Opis

This text is a study of the thinking which underlies recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories - most of them contemporary works - Perkins elaborates on two fundamental problems that arise in the writing of literary history: the contradictions inherent in organizing, structuring and presenting the subject; and the always unsuccessful attempt of literary histories to explain the development of the literature they describe.