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

Waugh, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340645601 ISBN 13: 9780340645604

Publisher: Hodder Education, 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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"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

From the Back Cover

This volume picks its way through the tangled webs of our literary and intellectual history, sorting out the proliferation of contexts, of theses methodologies and histories, drawing out connections as well as discontinuities between different orders of writing. A substantial introductory essay examines the relations between literature and intellectual history and addresses such issues as the relation between present and previous fin de siecles; the reconstruction of Modernism and the future of postmodern; the political, epistemological, and ethical nature of literary writing; the relations between science and literature. Each section also offers a brief introductory commentary which connects with the themes elaborated in the main introduction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340645601
• ISBN 13: 9780340645604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320