| Description |
xxxiv, 382 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Collingwood and Toynbee: transitions in English historical thought -- Religion, culture, and western civilization in Christopher Dawson's Idea of history -- The abiding relevance of Croce's Idea of history -- Romanticism, historicism, and realism: toward a period concept for early nineteenth-century intellectual history -- The tasks of intellectual history -- The culture of criticism: Gombrich, Auerbach, Popper -- The structure of historical narrative -- What is a historical system? -- The politics of contemporary philosophy of history -- The problem of change in literary history -- The problem of style in realistic representation: Marx and Flaubert -- The discourse of history -- Vico and structuralist/poststructuralist thought -- The interpretation of texts -- Historical pluralism and pantextualism -- The "nineteenth century" as chronotope -- Ideology and counterideology in Northrop Frye's Anatomy of criticism -- Writing in the middle voice -- Northrop Frye's place in contemporary cultural studies -- Storytelling: historical and ideological -- The suppression of rhetoric in the nineteenth century -- Postmodernism and textual anxieties -- Guilty of history? the longue durée of Paul Ricoeur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature and history.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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| Author |
Doran, Robert, 1968-
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| LC no. |
2009033014 |
| ISBN |
9780801894794 acid-free paper |
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0801894794 acid-free paper |
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9780801894800 paperback acid-free paper |
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0801894808 paperback acid-free paper |
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