| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) |
| Series |
The new critical idiom |
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New critical idiom.
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| Contents |
History and historicism. The poetics of history -- The nature of historical explanation -- Historicism and historiography -- The rise of historicism. Enlightenment by natural law -- Critiques of enlightenment--Vico and Herder -- Kant and Hegel--towards hermeneutics -- The hermeneutic tradition. Origins of hermeneutics -- Schleiermacher--the grammar and divination of history -- Dilthey's critique of historical reason -- Gadamer and the event of meaning -- Historicism and modernity. Marx's poetry of the future -- Nietzsche's prelude to a philosophy of the future -- Freud, Lacan and the illusion of a future -- Historicism of the present. Foucault--from anti-historicist theory to new historicist practice -- Derrida's postcards -- New historicism -- Postcolonial stylistics and postmodern logic -- Herstory -- Globalization and the end of history |
| Summary |
This updated edition provides an introduction to the crucial concept of historicism. It explains the theory & practice, presents the history of the term & its uses, introduces key thinkers in the field & considers historicism in relation to contemporary debates, such as feminism & globalization |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-206) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Criticism
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Historicism.
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criticism.
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literary criticism.
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historicism (theory)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Criticism
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Historicism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002153831 |
| ISBN |
0203426282 |
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9780203426289 |
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1134437811 |
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9781134437818 |
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0203444949 |
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9780203444948 |
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1280072881 |
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9781280072888 |
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