UID:
edoccha_9959244752202883
Format:
1 online resource (214 p.)
ISBN:
94-6166-010-3
Content:
Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden resists the utopian impulse to offer supposedly definitive solutions for the legitimation crises besetting American literature studies by ""going beyond"" its inherited racist, classist, and sexist underpinnings. Approaching the existence of the American literary tradition as a typically modern probl
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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The pre-history of American literature : early prospects (1850-1910) -- Live and let live : debating contemporary literature (1890-1930) -- The uses of language : literary polyvocality and ethnic continuity (1880-1950) -- Precursors and exemplars : genealogies in American literary history.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-5867-731-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
