This book records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives--that is, politics. A preference for impurity and a search for how to analyze and explain it are guiding threads in this book as its chapters pursue the complex entanglements of culture, politics, and society from which great literature arises. At its core is the nineteenth-century novel, but it addresses a broader range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history. The chapters stand out for a rare combination. They practice both an...
This book records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives--that is, po...
This book records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives-that is, politics. A preference for impurity and a search for how to analyze and explain it are guiding threads in this book as its chapters pursue the complex entanglements of culture, politics, and society from which great literature arises. At its core is the nineteenth-century novel, but it addresses a broader range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history.The chapters stand out for a rare combination. They practice both an...
This book records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives-that is, pol...
Increasingly in the last decade, macropolitics a consideration of political transformations at the level of the state has become a focus for cultural inquiry. From the macropolitical perspective afforded by contemporary postcolonial studies, the essays in this collection explore the relationship between politics and culture by examining developments in a wide range of nineteenth-century writing. The dozen essays gathered here span the entire era of colonization and discuss the British Isles, Europe, the United States, India, the Caribbean, and Africa. Addressing the works of Wordsworth,...
Increasingly in the last decade, macropolitics a consideration of political transformations at the level of the state has become a focus for cultural ...
The Yale Critics was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
A heated debate has been raging in North America in recent years over the form and function of literature. At the center of the fray is a group of critics teaching at Yale University--Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller--whose work can be described in relation to the deconstructive philosophy practiced by French...
The Yale Critics was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again a...
