Talking Forward, Talking Back: Critical Dialogues With the Enlightenment (Ams Studies in the Eighteenth Century) - Hardcover
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Crirical theory is always retrospective when applied to works from earlier periods. This text takes a new approach to the challenge of literary theory with respect to eighteenth-century studies. It looks at the way that literature of the period dealt with the question of the time of criticism.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Bound in publisher's brown cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. No dust jacket as issued. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xvi, 388 p., 23 cm. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University. Seller Inventory # 2004230054
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XVI, 388 S., Gr.-8° Buch in sehr guter Erhaltung, Einband sauber und unbestoßen, Seiten sauber, ohne Einträge, Buchbklock fest, Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University. 0 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800 OLeinen, mit goldgeprägtem Deckel- und Rückentitel. Seller Inventory # 171616
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