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Toward a new historicism.

Title: Toward a new historicism.
Author: Morris, Wesley.
Publication: Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1972.

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Description

xii, 265 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Assessing major critics from Vernon Parrington to Murray Krieger, Wesley Morris points the way to a "new historicism." He outlines traditional historicist interests in American literary theory and draws from them the foundation for a vital new study of literature. As Mr. Morris shows, however, the new historicism moves beyond--necessarily using the most recent developments in linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, the psychology of perception and literary response--to see the aesthetic relationship between the work and its context"--Amazon.com.

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Princeton Legacy Library

Uniform Title

Princeton legacy library

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 241-255.

Contents

Toward a discrimination of historicisms -- Literary history and literary criticism: literature's dual mode of existence -- pt. 1. The American historicist tradition: Vernon Louis Parrington: an argument for historicism -- American Marxian literary theory: the search for critical certainty -- The creative mind and literary prophecy: the critical heritage of Van Wyck Brooks -- pt. 2. The rediscovery of historicism: John Crowe Ransom: principles of a new historicism -- The meeting of opposites -- Roy harvey Pearce: the revitalizing of historicism -- The meeting of opposites -- Murray Krieger: the ambition of a new historicism -- Toward a new historicism.

ISBN

0691061556
9780691061559
9780691646824
0691646821

LCCN

77166384

OCLC

ocm00315384
315384
SCSB-130104

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Princeton University Library