Literature in Contexts

by Peter Barry

Book Overview

Is it possible to return the literary text in all its particularity to the centre of literary study, without going back to the 'words-on-the page' myopia of the past? That is the primary question which Literature in contexts engages with.

In the 1980s the study of literary theory eclipsed the study of the literary text, but today, we are told, we are 'post-theory'. Yet as it emerged from the shadow of theory, the literary text was eclipsed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719064554
• ISBN13: 9780719064555
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"