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Ilya Kliger - Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics - 9780823264858 - V9780823264858
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Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics

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Description for Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics Hardback. Editor(s): Kliger, Ilya. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: CBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 237 x 50. Weight in Grams: 868.

Since the mid-1980s, attempts to think history and literature together have produced much exciting work in the humanities. Indeed, some form of historicism can be said to inform most of the current scholarship in literary studies, including work in poetics, yet much of this scholarship remains undertheorized.
Envisioning a revitalized and more expansive historicism, this volume builds on the tradition of Historical Poetics, pioneered by Alexander Veselovsky (1838–1906) and developed in various fruitful directions by the Russian Formalists, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Olga Freidenberg. The volume includes previously untranslated texts of some of the major scholars in this critical tradition, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Series
Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823264858
SKU
V9780823264858
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About Ilya Kliger
Ilya Kliger is Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature (Penn State University Press, 2011), as well as articles dealing with the history and theory of the novel in Russia and France, literary theory, and narratology. Currently, he is working ... Read more

Reviews for Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics
"Persistent Forms introduces major early exponents [and also offers] new applications that illustrate the continuing vitality [of Historical Poetics]. The juxtaposition of the older and newer essays not only lends interest to the book but also shows Historical Poetics at work, not only in the grander literature that is the authors' subject matter but also in the world of academic ... Read more

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