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Structure and Society in Literary History - Studies in the History and Theory of Literary Criticism (Paperback) Loot Price: R729
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Structure and Society in Literary History - Studies in the History and Theory of Literary Criticism (Paperback): Robert Weimann

Structure and Society in Literary History - Studies in the History and Theory of Literary Criticism (Paperback)

Robert Weimann

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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.

General

Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 1984
First published: 1984
Authors: Robert Weimann
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3122-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN: 0-8018-3122-9
Barcode: 9780801831225

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