New Directions in Literary History

New Directions in Literary History is a comprehensive collection of essays that explore approaches to literary studies from phenomenology, stylistics, linguistics, Marxist reevaluations, interdisciplinary studies, and reader response. Written by an international group of scholars, the essays cover a range of literary periods and address key issues in the study of literature, including the relationship between the contemporary critic and past works, the role of method, reading, and the reader's role in interpretation, the language of literature, the origin and decline of literary forms, and the relationship between literature and autobiography. The book is of interest to students of English literature and literary theory.

Format: Hardback
Length: 273 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

First published in 1974, New Directions in Literary History is a comprehensive attempt to present approaches to literary studies that have developed from phenomenology, stylistics and linguistics, Marxist reconsiderations of literature, interdisciplinary studies and analysis of reader response. Written by an international group of scholars, the essays are taken from the pages of New Literary History. They range from the Middle Ages to contemporary literature.

European and American literary critics are here represented, together with an art critic, a philosopher and a novelist. Their essays deal with crucial problems in the study of literature: the relationship of the contemporary critic to works of the past; the place of method in literary study; how reading takes place; the role of the reader in different literary periods in providing a guide to interpretation; the language of literature and its relation to natural or ordinary language; the origin and decline of literary forms; and what constitutes literature, especially in the relation between fictional character and autobiography. Although the essays are essentially concerned with theoretical issues, they also examine the practical applications to literature. Students of English literature and literary theory will find this book particularly interesting.

Weight: 670g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032162904