The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historial Method and Theory

by Jerome J. McGann

Book Overview

With emphasis on the theoretical and methodological, the studies collected here serve a dual purpose: to explore the fault lines that mark various kinds of ahistorical literary studies from New Criticism to Poststructuralism; and to develop a fully elaborated socio-historical criticism for literary works. McGann moves toward his goal by means of four special sets of investigations: the relation between the so-called "autonomous" poem and its political/historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198117507
• ISBN13: 9780198117506
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.7"