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This analysis of the literary art of recapturing the past as the artist perceives it examines such questions as how a fictional narrative differs from other ways of seeing a past time; to what extent literature is nontemporal and to what extent it is tied to the institutions and traditions of its era; and how given works conjure up a sense of time.

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Introduction I. MODELS OF HISTORICAL RETRIEVAL 1. The Wayward Temporality of Literature 2. Recurrence, Institution, and Literary Kind II. REVIVALS AND CONTINUITY 3. Poetic Recollection and the Phantomized Past 4. Ancestral Gloom and Glory III. DISCONTINUITY 5. Milton's Siege of Contraries: Universal Waste and Redemption 6. Questers in an Icy Elysee: Moderns without Ancestry IV. LITERARY HISTORY? 7 Ceres and the Librarians of Babel Notes Index

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 04/06/1981
      ISBN13: 9780674656765, 978-0674656765
      ISBN10: 0674656768
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      Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This analysis of the literary art of recapturing the past as the artist perceives it examines such questions as how a fictional narrative differs from other ways of seeing a past time; to what extent literature is nontemporal and to what extent it is tied to the institutions and traditions of its era; and how given works conjure up a sense of time.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction I. MODELS OF HISTORICAL RETRIEVAL 1. The Wayward Temporality of Literature 2. Recurrence, Institution, and Literary Kind II. REVIVALS AND CONTINUITY 3. Poetic Recollection and the Phantomized Past 4. Ancestral Gloom and Glory III. DISCONTINUITY 5. Milton's Siege of Contraries: Universal Waste and Redemption 6. Questers in an Icy Elysee: Moderns without Ancestry IV. LITERARY HISTORY? 7 Ceres and the Librarians of Babel Notes Index

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