The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives

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Lawrence L. Besserman
Psychology Press, 1996 - 244 páginas
In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: Chaucer and Medieval and Renaissance studies (Larry D. Benson, Heiko A. Oberman, Lee Patterson, and Aldo Scaglione), and English and American literary history (Sanford Budick, H. M. Daleski, Denis Donoghue, Robert J. Griffin, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Jerome McGann, and Helen Vendler). In addition to shedding new light on a specific author, each essay also refines or reinvigorates critical approaches to specific periods. The analyses illuminate and clarify our understanding of what are traditionally but problematically called the Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern eras in European cultural history.
 

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Perspectives
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The Beginnings of Chaucers English Style 29
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The Place of the Modern in the Late Middle Ages
51
Obstacles on the Path to Emancipation
67
The Periodization of the Renaissance and the Question of Mannerism 55
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The Case of Wordsworth
107
A Critique of Romantic Periodization
133
A Project for the Sun
147
Rethinking Romanticism
161
A Victorian Modernist?
179
Wallace Stevens The Idea of Order
197
Is There a Perennial Literature?
217
Periodizing Modern American Poetry
233
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