Fault Lines and Controversies in the Study of Seventeenth-century English LiteratureClaude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significant theoretical and practical fault lines and controversies in seventeenth-century English literature. The turn into the twenty-first century is an appropriate time to take stock of the state of the field, and, as part of that stocktaking, the need arises to assess both where literary study of the early modern period has been and where it might desirably go. Hence, many of the essays in this collection look both backward and forward. They chart the changes in the field over the past half century, while also looking forward to more change in the future. |
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... Pluralism 10 Catherine Gimelli Martin The Ahistoricism of the New Historicism: Knowledge as Power versus Power as Knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis 22 Dennis Flynn Conjecture in the Writing of Donne's Biography, with a Modest Proposal ...
... Pluralism 10 Catherine Gimelli Martin The Ahistoricism of the New Historicism: Knowledge as Power versus Power as Knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis 22 Dennis Flynn Conjecture in the Writing of Donne's Biography, with a Modest Proposal ...
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... pluralism and historicism, Bakhtinian dialogism and interpretive communities, the place of extraliterary moral judgment in criticism and the question of conjecture in literary biography. For all their frank concern with broad ...
... pluralism and historicism, Bakhtinian dialogism and interpretive communities, the place of extraliterary moral judgment in criticism and the question of conjecture in literary biography. For all their frank concern with broad ...
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... pluralism, an approach that assumes that different theories, “by asking different kinds of questions, will provide different kinds of answers and that each kind of answer is at. ference as “Too Rich to Clothe the Sunne”: Essays on George ...
... pluralism, an approach that assumes that different theories, “by asking different kinds of questions, will provide different kinds of answers and that each kind of answer is at. ference as “Too Rich to Clothe the Sunne”: Essays on George ...
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... pluralism is less a theory about literature itself than a method of evaluating competing theoretical claims, Evans points out the epistemo- logical, ethical, psychological, and pragmatic benefits of pluralism, especially the spirit of ...
... pluralism is less a theory about literature itself than a method of evaluating competing theoretical claims, Evans points out the epistemo- logical, ethical, psychological, and pragmatic benefits of pluralism, especially the spirit of ...
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... Pluralism Anyone studying literature today faces pressing questions that would have seemed less insistent earlier ... pluralism. Pluralism is less a theory about literature itself than a method of evaluating competing theoretical claims ...
... Pluralism Anyone studying literature today faces pressing questions that would have seemed less insistent earlier ... pluralism. Pluralism is less a theory about literature itself than a method of evaluating competing theoretical claims ...
Contents
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Dennis Flynn | 50 |
Tobias Gregory | 73 |
Elizabeth Sauer | 88 |
Kate Narveson | 111 |
Jeffrey Johnson | 130 |
Critical Directions in the Study of Early Modern Sermons | 140 |
Sharon Cadman Seelig | 156 |
Joan Faust | 170 |
Cristina Malcolmson | 187 |
William Shullenberger | 204 |
Notes on Contributors | 227 |
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