The History in Literature: On Value, Genre, Institutions

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Columbia University Press, 1990 - 269 Seiten
Herbert Lindenberger was one of the first literary critics to call for some kind of return to historical thinking in literary criticism. His ten essays cover canon formation, the historical status of genres, and the ways that art and criticism are embedded within institutional frameworks.

Lindenberger argues that, "what we label 'historical' assumes strikingly different shapes in different historical situations" and that present shape empowers new kind of knowledge. He writes, "We may well discover that our century-old form of organization within the humanities no longer fits the type of knowledge we are producing."

The lively and topical essays of The History in Literature demonstrate Lindenberger's capacious and diverse knowledge, his incisive wit, and his formidable critical skills.
 

Inhalt

Experiencing History in the Age of Historicism
1
Romantic Poetry and the Institutionalizing of Value
23
From a Theory of Genre
61
La clemenza di Tito
85
Dantons Death in
109
The Normality of Canon Change
131
The Western
148
Institutions as Frames
163
Toward and After a New History in Literary Study
189
Urheberrecht

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Autoren-Profil (1990)

Herbert Lindenberger is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humnities at Stanford University. He has edited two collections and written several books, the most recent of which are Saul's Fall and Opera: The Extravagant Art.

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