Persistent Forms - Explorations in Historical Poetics (Hardcover)

Since the mid-1980s, attempts to think history and literature together have produced much exciting work in the humanities. Indeed, some form of historicism can be said to inform most of the current scholarship in literary studies, including work in poetics, yet much of this scholarship remains undertheorized. Envisioning a revitalized and more expansive historicism, this volume builds on the tradition of Historical Poetics, pioneered by Alexander Veselovsky (1838-1906) and developed in various fruitful directions by the Russian Formalists, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Olga Freidenberg. The volume includes previously untranslated texts of some of the major scholars in this critical tradition, as well as original contributions which place that tradition in dialogue with other thinkers who have approached literature in a globally comparatist and evolutionary-historical spirit. The contributors seek to challenge and complement a historicism that stresses proximate sociopolitical contexts through an engagement with the longue duree of literary forms and institutions. In particular, Historical Poetics aims to uncover deep-historical stratifications and asynchronicities, in which formal solutions may display elective affinities with other, chronologically distant solutions to analogous social and political problems. By recovering the traditional nexus of philology and history, Persistent Forms seeks to reinvigorate poetics as a theoretical discipline that would respond to such critical and intellectual developments as Marxism, New Historicism, the study of world literature, practices of distant reading, and a renewed attention to ritual, oral poetics, and genre.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
Release date:	December 2015
Editors:	Ilya Kliger • Boris Maslov
Foreword by:	Eric Hayot
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 50mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth
Pages:	504
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-6485-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Promotions
LSN:	0-8232-6485-8
Barcode:	9780823264858

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