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<p><p>gallagher And Greenblatt Offer A Brilliant Introduction To New Historicism. In Their Hands, Difficult Ideas Become Coherent And Accessible.-<i>choice</i><p>for Decades, New Historicism Has Been A Highly Controversial And Influential Force In Literary And Cultural Studies. In This Dazzling, Seminal Volume, Two Of The Discipline's Most Distinguished Practitioners Reflect On Its Surprisingly Disparate Sources And Far-reaching Effects.<p></p><h3>kirkus Reviews</h3><p>a Tour De Force Of New Literary Criticism. In Their Introduction, Gallagher (nobody&#39;s Story, Not Reviewed) And Greenblatt (marvelous Possessions, 1991) Express The Hope That &quot;you Will Not Be Able To Say What It All Adds Up To; If You Could, We Would Have Failed.&quot; Alas, They Succeed, And It&#39;s Doubtful That A Better Demonstration Of The Anarchy And Solipsism Of Literary Criticism Today Can Be Found. They Mean To Demonstrate How Their Varied Approaches To All Sorts Of &quot;texts&quot; Grow Out Of The Rediscovery By Scholars Like Them Of The Relevance Of Historical And Cultural Context To The Interpretation Of Just About Everything. But They Do So In Ways That Their Predecessors&#151;the Victorian Scho

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Author
Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780226279350
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Humanities

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