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NOT TRUE PDF, CONVERTED PROBABLY FROM EPUBIn many ways, the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory can be seen as a prolonged struggle against the pervading influence of nineteenth-century positivist historicism. Anglo-American New Criticism and later French post-structuralism and deconstruction are the best-known instances of this conflict. Less widely known but no less important to contemporary literary studies are Charles Péguy’s earlier debates with French academic historicism in the years leading up to World War I. First examined by Antoine Compagnon in his groundbreaking work La Troisième République des lettres in 1983, it is a period in French literary and cultural history that remains, some thirty years later, largely untreated in English. This book thus addresses an important, albeit relatively unexplored, moment in the development of twentieth-century literary history and theory. By way of Péguy’s foundational polemics with modernity and his role in the related ‘crisis of historicism’, we gain a better understanding of the critical basis from which similar anti-positivist and anti-historicist critiques were later enacted on both sides of the Atlant

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Author

Glenn H. Roe

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198718079

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Romance