History and Criticism

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Cornell University Press, 6 ago 2018 - 152 pagine

"LaCapra offers an intriguing collection of essays to support both his enthusiasm for intellectual history... and his concern about the 'excesses' he finds in techniques and practices of the new social history. Admitting that the essays are...

 

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Preface
9
1 Rhetoric and History
15
The Cosmos of a TwentiethCentury Historian
45
3 Is Everyone a Mentalité Case? Transference and the Culture Concept
71
4 Writing the History of Criticism Now?
95
5 History and the Novel
115
6 Conclusion
135
Index
143
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Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books, including History, Literature, Critical Theory; History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.

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