books about: historicism-studies     books:     Historicism-studies      The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century (The New ... Walter Michaels University of California Press, 1988 critical tour de force Brillant and acute, if not somewhat idiosyncratic, close-readings of U.S. literary naturalistic texts. Michaels's buoyant prose and the oblique angles he takes in historicizing the texts make for a provoking, worthwhile read. His arguments concerning the masochistic ...             Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (New Historicism, Studies ... Stephen Greenblatt University of California Press, 1989 Unsurpassed Shakespeare criticism Although Greenblatt as received a good deal attention for his interest in critical practice and for his coining of the terms "New Historicisim" and "cultural poetics," his real strengths ahev also ben doing close readings of literary and historical texts. In ...             Silencing the Past Michel-Rolph Trouillot Beacon Press, 1997 Challenging philosophical look at historical method Michel-Rolph Trouillot argues that in the writing of history lots of things get lost and what is lost impacts our view of the past. The first thing which is lost are some sources. For many of us there simply are no sources kept. For others there may have been ...             The KILLING OF HISTORY Keith Windschuttle Free Press, 1997 Loved it I found this book recently in a secondhand store, and couldn't put it down. This book has been reviewed extensively already so I just want to mention a couple of things. First of all, it speaks volumes that books criticizing anti-realist approaches and philosophies ...             Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, ... Alan Liu University Of Chicago Press, 2008 Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today?s society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present?the most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen.  Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. ...             Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (The New Historicism, No 14) Gillian Brown University of California Press, 1992 Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the ...             Practicing New Historicism Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt University Of Chicago Press, 2001 Waiting for a Theory of Practice Written by the two leading practitioners of New Historicism, this book is the most valuable reference up to date demonstrating the power, as well as the weaknesses, of this peculiar "method" of reading. The first three chapters on methodology advocate the immanence of ...             England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism James Chandler University Of Chicago Press, 1999 Best book of its type If you are looking for a book on the Romantic period and the creation of modernity, full of trendy parrot squawks from the various "schools" of criticism diminishing the minds of tenure-hungry, vindictive graduate students, then do not even think of reading Chandler's ...             Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism Ann Rigney Cornell University Press, 2001             Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism : Studies ... Caroline Walker Bynum University of California Press, 1988 May I have ashes on that cheesecake, please? This is a great read. I don't care if you're interested in history in general, history of the catholic church, history of western mysticism or just looking for something offbeat and interesting: This is a fascinating book! The history of mysticism and western ...             Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context Tejaswini Niranjana University of California Press, 1992 The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among peoples, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwritten by Western philosophy helped colonialism to ...             New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader A Hodder Arnold Publication, 1996 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have become two of the most powerful and appealing movements in modern criticism. Their conquest of Renaissance studies has escalated into global colonization of English and American literary history. A wealth of innovative work has emerged on everything from the "Canterbury Tales" to the "Cantos," bringing ...             LEFT BEHIND Answered Verse by Verse Lulu, 2008 Will unbelievers and half-hearted churchgoers have 7 more years to make up their minds about Christ after He raptures the Church? LEFT BEHIND gives them all a 'second chance.' But is that what Jesus taught? His parables of the talents, the wise and foolish virgins, the wheat and the tares, and the faithful and evil servant all show him returning ...             Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self (New Historicism - Studies in Cultural Poetics, Vol 36) Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle University of California Press, 1997 This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography"--until now taken to be a literal, documentary account--is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of information about the founder of the largest and most ...             Subaltern Appeal to Experience: Self-identity, Late Modernity, And the Politics of Immediacy (Mcgill-Queen's ... Craig Ireland McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005 Experience remains a politically charged and semantically ambiguous concept that arouses as much passion as it does suspicion, especially as it relates to agency and identity. Craig Ireland focuses on the eighteenth-century historical developments that led to the conceptualization of experience as a modern problem. Combining historical findings ...          products you might be interested in search for books individualism, nineteenth-century, post-structuralism, self-identity, shakespearean, structuralism      toavi.com    web we recommend Loved it randomly chosen book: Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller