Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics

Since the mid-1980s, attempts to think history and literature together have produced much exciting work in the humanities. Indeed, some form of historicism can be said to inform most of the current scholarship in literary studies, including work in poetics, yet much of this scholarship remains undertheorized.Envisioning a revitalized and more expansive historicism, this volume builds on the tradition of Historical Poetics, pioneered by Alexander Veselovsky...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823264858
• ISBN13: 9780823264858
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"