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1 electronic resource (214 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-204) and index. |
| Contents |
The pre-history of American literature : early prospects (1850-1910) -- Live and let live : debating contemporary literature (1890-1930) -- The uses of language : literary polyvocality and ethnic continuity (1880-1950) -- Precursors and exemplars : genealogies in American literary history. |
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Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. |
| Summary |
Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden resists the utopian impulse to offer supposedly definitive solutions for the legitimation crises besetting American literature studies by ""going beyond"" its inherited racist, classist, and sexist underpinnings. Approaching the existence of the American literary tradition as a typically modern probl. |
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English. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Littérature américaine -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Predicting the past Leuven : Leuven University Press, c2009. 9789058677310 (DLC) 2009515142 |
| ISBN |
9058677311 |
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9789058677310 |
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9789461660107 (electronic bk.) |
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9461660103 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 13870650 |
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GBVCP 1003667317 |
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DEBSZ 421445564 |
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DEBBG BV044179957 |
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DEBBG BV043159678 |
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AU@ 000051404151 |
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