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Predicting the past : the paradoxes of American literary history /

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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 r...

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Main Author: Boyden, Michael
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Leuven : Leuven University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (214 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index.
ISBN:9789461660107
9461660103