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Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics
Ilya Kliger
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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 moreas well as original contributions which place that tradition in dialogue with other thinkers who have approached literature in a globally comparatist and evolutionary-historical spirit. The contributors seek to challenge and complement a historicism that stresses proximate sociopolitical contexts through an engagement with the longue durée of literary forms and institutions. In particular, Historical Poetics aims to uncover deep-historical stratifications and asynchronicities, in which formal solutions may display elective affinities with other, chronologically distant solutions to analogous social and political problems.
By recovering the traditional nexus of philology and history, Persistent Forms seeks to reinvigorate poetics as a theoretical discipline that would respond to such critical and intellectual developments as Marxism, New Historicism, the study of world literature, practices of distant reading, and a renewed attention to ritual, oral poetics, and genre.
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Fordham University Press
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Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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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 moreon a book on the tragic social imaginary in the age of Russian Realism. Boris Maslov is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He has published articles on Homer and Archaic Greek lyric, the reception of the Pindaric ode, history of comparative literature, and historical semantics of Greek and Russian. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Pindar and the Emergence of Literature. Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Chinese Dreams (Michigan, 2004), The Hypothetical Mandarin (Oxford, 2009), On Literary Worlds (Oxford, 2012), and The Elements of Academic Style (Columbia, 2014). Show Less
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 moreideas about literature. A nice rhyme that makes for an especially attractive and interesting publication."
-Emily Klenin University of California Los Angeles "This wide-ranging and stimulating volume goes a long way toward introducing English-language scholars to the perspectives opened by Veselovsky's literary scholarship. The essays contained in the collection are of a uniformly high quality, and they give the reader a keen sense of the legacy and the promise of Historical Poetics."
-Daniel Heller-Roazen Princeton University Show Less