Tradition : a feeling for the literary past / Seth Lerer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lerer, Seth, author.

Series:

Literary agenda.

Literary Agenda

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Seth Lerer explores our relationship to the literary past in an age marked by historical self-consciousness, critical distance, and shifts in cultural literacy. He examines a range of fiction, poetry, and criticism in order to understand the ways in which the literary past makes us, and how we create canons for reading, teaching, and scholarship.

Contents:

Cover; Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past; Copyright; Series Introduction; Preface: "Today, makes Yesterday mean"; Notes; Contents; 1: Traditions of Tradition; Canon; Taste and Knowledge; Imitation and Originality; Irony and Sincerity; Notes; 2: The Copperfield Experience; I.; II.; III.; IV.; Notes; 3: My 1984; I.; II.; III.; IV.; Notes; 4: "This Loved Philology": Poems of the Fall; I.; II.; III.; IV.; Notes; 5: The Tears of Odysseus; I.; II.; III.; Notes; Acknowledgments; Short Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-105590-5