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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 Historywithin the critical context of the mid 1980s.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Literary History
Chapter 1. Past Significance and Present Meaning in Literary History
Chapter 2. The Concept of Tradition Reconsidered
Chapter 3. Past origins and Present Functions in American Literary History
Chapter 4. Structuralism and Literary History
Chapter 5. Metaphor and Historical Criticism: Shakespeare's Imagery Revisited
Chapter 6. Structure and History in Narrative Perspective: The Problem of Point of View Reconsidered
Chapter 7. Text and History: Epilogue, 1984
Index of Names

Structure and Society in Literary History Studies

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 26/09/1984
      ISBN13: 9780801831225, 978-0801831225
      ISBN10: 0801831229
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 Historywithin the critical context of the mid 1980s.

      Table of Contents

      Preface to the Original Edition
      Introduction: Toward a Theory of Literary History
      Chapter 1. Past Significance and Present Meaning in Literary History
      Chapter 2. The Concept of Tradition Reconsidered
      Chapter 3. Past origins and Present Functions in American Literary History
      Chapter 4. Structuralism and Literary History
      Chapter 5. Metaphor and Historical Criticism: Shakespeare's Imagery Revisited
      Chapter 6. Structure and History in Narrative Perspective: The Problem of Point of View Reconsidered
      Chapter 7. Text and History: Epilogue, 1984
      Index of Names

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