Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340645601 ISBN 13: 9780340645604

Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

This Reader is the first of its kind to offer access to important intellectual contexts that have helped to mold the production and reception of twentieth-century literature. Representing such fields as the philosophy of science, theories of knowledge, anthropology, psychoanalysis, religion, and social and political theory, the manifestos, essays, and excerpts are surrounded with substantial editorial commentary and section introductions throughout.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This volume picks its way through the tangled webs of our literary and intellectual history, sorting out the proliferation of contexts, of theses methodologies and histories, drawing out connections as well as discontinuities between different orders of writing. A substantial introductory essay examines the relations between literature and intellectual history and addresses such issues as the relation between present and previous fin de siecles; the reconstruction of Modernism and the future of postmodern; the political, epistemological, and ethical nature of literary writing; the relations between science and literature. Each section also offers a brief introductory commentary which connects with the themes elaborated in the main introduction.

About the Author

Patricia Waugh, Professor of English Literature, University of Durham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0340645601
• ISBN 13: 9780340645604
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Waugh Patricia