1st Edition
The Challenge of Periodization Old Paradigms and New Perspectives
Edited By Lawrence Besserman
Copyright 1996
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: Chaucer and Medieval and Renaissance studies (Larry D. Benson, Heiko A. Oberman, Lee Patterson, and... Read more
Chapter 1 The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives, Lawrence Besserman; Chapter 2 The Beginnings of Chaucer's English Style, Larry D. Benson; Chapter 3 The Place of the Modern in the Late Middle Ages, Lee Patterson; Chapter 4 Reuchlin and the Jews: Obstacles on the Path to Emancipation, Heiko A. Oberman; Chapter 5 The Periodization of the Renaissance and the Question of Mannerism, Aldo Scaglione; Chapter 6, Sanford Budick; Chapter 7 A Critique of Romantic Periodization, Robert J. Griffin; Chapter 8 A Project for the Sun, Geoffrey H. Hartman; Chapter 9 Rethinking Romanticism, Jerome J. McGann; Chapter 10 Thomas Hardy: A Victorian Modernist?, H. M. Daleski; Chapter 11 Reading and Periodization: Wallace Stevens' “The Idea of Order at Key West”, J. Hillis Miller; Chapter 12 Is There a Perennial Literature?, Denis Donoghue; Chapter 13 Periodizing Modem American Poetry, Helen Vendler;
Biography
Lawrence Besserman
"The list of contributors contains some of the most well-respected names in the fields of Medieval, Early Modern and Modern studies." -- Literary Research
