New literary histories : new historicism and contemporary criticism / Claire Colebrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colebrook, Claire.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Historicism.

Physical Description:

viii, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Summary:

This lucid study provides a welcome critical overview of current trends in literary theory after post-structuralism. With chapters ranging from Foucauldian and Marxist perspectives to cultural materialism, Claire Colebrook moves to the more complex issues which surround literary history and interpretation and the politics of literature. This study demonstrates the interpretative application of literary texts to developments in social theory, as well as focusing on the theoretical innovations which have recently marked the study of Renaissance literature. Practical, concise, and well-reasoned, Claire Colebrook's New Literary Histories will be highly beneficial to readers investigating theoretical approaches to the study of literature.

Contents:

1 History, historicism and new historicism 1

2 Michael Foucault: archaeology, generalogy and power 31

3 Culture and interpretation: anthropology, ethnography and understanding 66

4 Pierre Bourdieu: habitus, representation and symbolic exchange 90

5 Michel De Certeau: oppositional practices and heterologies 112

6 Raymond Williams and cultural materialism 138

7 Ideology and hegemony: Althusser, Macherey and Gramsci 155

8 Contemporary cultural materialism: subjectivity, desire and transgression 175

9 Stephen Greenblatt and new historicism 198

10 Conclusion: new historicism and contemporary criticism 220.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-242) and index.

ISBN:

0719049865

0719049873

OCLC:

36746377