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New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

By John Brannigan

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1998
ISBN
0312213891, 9780312213893
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16922447 bytes)
Series
Transitions
Pages
260\133
Time added
2012-12-03 17:11:12

Description

In this study, John Brannigan explains the development of new historicism and cultural materialism and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. Exemplary readings of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Yeats' Easter 1916 serve to show and criticize the new historicist and cultural materialist interpretative strategies. Brannigan explores the potential future of the theories and the debates surrounding their controversial position in literary studies

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