The Challenge of Periodization

Old Paradigms and New Perspectives

Lawrence Besserman editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:1st Aug '96

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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.

"The list of contributors contains some of the most well-respected names in the fields of Medieval, Early Modern and Modern studies." -- Literary Research

ISBN: 9780815321033

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Weight: 476g

270 pages