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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... issues , however , nearly all of them also examine and illuminate particular works of literature . That is , these essays engage the- ory , but they also illustrate their points concretely by enacting practical criti- cism of works ...
... issues , however , nearly all of them also examine and illuminate particular works of literature . That is , these essays engage the- ory , but they also illustrate their points concretely by enacting practical criti- cism of works ...
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... issues as pluralism and historicism, Bakhtinian dialogism and interpretive communities, the place of extraliterary ... issue of Studies in the Literary Imag- ination (10:2 [1977]), ed. William A. Sessions and James S. Tillman; those ...
... issues as pluralism and historicism, Bakhtinian dialogism and interpretive communities, the place of extraliterary ... issue of Studies in the Literary Imag- ination (10:2 [1977]), ed. William A. Sessions and James S. Tillman; those ...
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... issue ” of “ the place in literary criticism of extraliter- ary moral judgment . ” Adopting Susan Noakes's terminology , Gregory divides criticism into exegesis ( the explication of what the author intended or what a work's first ...
... issue ” of “ the place in literary criticism of extraliter- ary moral judgment . ” Adopting Susan Noakes's terminology , Gregory divides criticism into exegesis ( the explication of what the author intended or what a work's first ...
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... issues. Broaching some of the most sig- nificant questions that animate the study of early modern literature at the turn into a new century, the essays demonstrate the continuing vitality of the field. Robert C. Evans “What Is Truth ...
... issues. Broaching some of the most sig- nificant questions that animate the study of early modern literature at the turn into a new century, the essays demonstrate the continuing vitality of the field. Robert C. Evans “What Is Truth ...
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... issues are often so polemical, and advocates so adamant, and the means for deciding truth so uncertain or disputed, that many intelligent students will be tempted either to abandon literary study altogether or, perhaps worse, simply to ...
... issues are often so polemical, and advocates so adamant, and the means for deciding truth so uncertain or disputed, that many intelligent students will be tempted either to abandon literary study altogether or, perhaps worse, simply to ...
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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