| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages) |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index. |
| Contents |
The pre-history of American literature : early prospects (1850-1910) -- Live and let live : debating contemporary literature (1890-1930) -- The uses of language : literary polyvocality and ethnic continuity (1880-1950) -- Precursors and exemplars : genealogies in American literary history. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden resists the utopian impulse to offer supposedly definitive solutions for the legitimation crises besetting American literature studies by ""going beyond"" its inherited racist, classist, and sexist underpinnings. Approaching the existence of the American literary tradition as a typically modern probl. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boyden, Michael. Predicting the past. Leuven : Leuven University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009515142 |
| ISBN |
9789461660107 (electronic book) |
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9461660103 (electronic book) |
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