Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340645598 ISBN 13: 9780340645598

Publisher: Hodder Arnold, 1996

Synopsis

Literary texts are revived and reformulated by each generation of readers, who bring their own historical understanding to bear on the writing of the past. This reader grapples with attempts to understand the way in which the past is continually rewritten in the present. It provides a collection of manifestos, essays and excerpts which offer access to important intellectual contexts which have helped to shape the production and reception of 20th-century literature. The texts have been grouped according to theses, methodologies and historical movements, with a short, explicatory, introductory essay with each section. The sections thereafter are arranged conceptually, but broadly chronologically, so as to show the various intellectual shifts of the century which have affected the writing and criticism of literature.

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Revolutions of the Word Provides a collection of manifestos, essays and excerpts giving access to important intellectual contexts which have helped to shape the production and reception of 2Oth-century literature. Full description

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"Well-researched, well-organised and generally convincing...invaluable for its thoroughness in delving into primary sources."--history
"Well-researched, well-organised and generally convincing...invaluable for its thoroughness in delving into primary sources."--history
"Well-researched, well-organised and generally convincing...invaluable for its thoroughness in delving into primary sources."--history

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Arnold
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340645598
• ISBN 13: 9780340645598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Waugh Patricia