Literature and society / edited, with a preface by Edward W. Said.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Said, Edward W., editor, writer of preface.

Series:

Selected papers from the English Institute ; Number 3.

Selected papers from the English Institute ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 202 pages).

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]

Summary:

In its emphasis on the text as a complex abstraction, much of the most influential recent work in criticism and theory has distanced itself from the traditional social and cultural questions of literary scholarship. In "Literature and Society", seven critics consider anew the situation of writing in history and human society. Their contributions deal with the subject from many viewpoints, all of which are informed but not overwhelmed by current trends in modern critical theory. -- From publisher's description.

Contents:

Preface / Edward W. Said

The wages of satire / Harry Levin

Chaucer's "new men" and the good of literature in the "Canterbury Tales" / Anne Middleton

Improvisation and power / Stephen J. Greenblatt

"To entrap the wisest": a reading of "The Merchant of Venice" / René Girard

A social history of fact and fiction: authorial disavowal in the early English novel / Lennard J. Davis

Text, ideology, realism / Terry Eagleton

Ad/d feminam: women, literature, and society / Catharine R. Stimpson.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.