{"product_id":"the-past-that-poets-make-9780674656765","title":"The Past That Poets Make","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    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","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403599520087,"sku":"9780674656765","price":56.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674656765.jpg?v=1730483942","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-past-that-poets-make-9780674656765","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}