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Genre Theory and Historical Change: Theoretical Essays of Ralph Cohen

Book information

Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Year
2017
ISBN
0813940125, 9780813940120
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
874 kB (894520 bytes)
Pages
428\0
Time added
2020-10-29 14:34:34

Description

Ralph Cohen was highly regarded as the visionary founding editor of New Literary History, but his own theoretical essays appeared in such a scattering of publications that their conceptual originality, underlying coherence, and range of application have not been readily apparent. This new selection of twenty essays, many published here for the first time, offers a synthesis of Cohen's vital work.In these pages Cohen introduces change and continuity as essential modes of discourse in the study of literary behavior, an approach that can produce reliable narratives of literary, artistic, and cultural change. Here Cohen conceptualizes and develops a compelling, innovative theory of genre that promotes a systematic study of historical change, offering rewarding insights for twenty-first-century scholars.

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