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Structure and Society in Literary History: Studies in the History and Theory of Literary Criticism - Couverture souple

Weimann, Robert

 
9780801831225: Structure and Society in Literary History: Studies in the History and Theory of Literary Criticism
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ISBN 10 : 0801831229 ISBN 13 : 9780801831225
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984

Synopsis

In Structure and Society in Literary History Robert Weimann, one of Germany's leading literary theoreticians, raises important questions about the social function of literature and sketches the outlines of a new historical criticism.

Weinmann's Marxist analysis relates the history of writing and reading to the history of social and economic activities; literature and art are imaginative appropriations of the world, producers as well as products of culture. Aesthetic structures— texts— and social function are necessarily interrelated for Weimann as they are not for the followers of the New Criticism or the practitioners of structuralism.

Firmly grounded in Anglo-American and Western European criticism, Weimann presents a cogent critique of T. S. Eliot's concept of tradition, analyzes the development of American literary history, and reconsiders the interpretation of Shakespeare's imagery. A new concluding chapter, written especially for the Johns Hopkins edition, presents a coherent and systematically developed survey of those poststructuralist positions most relevant to the placement of "Structure and Society in Literary History" within the critical context of the mid 1980s.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert Weimann is professor of literature at the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic in Berlin. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater and Structure and Society in Literary History.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
1984
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801831229
ISBN 13 
9780801831225
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
348
Coordonnées du fabricant
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