Revolutions Of The Word. Intellectual Contexts For The Study Of Modern Literature.

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hodder Headline Group
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: First Edition

Description: 297 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The Idea Of Modern Literature As A 'revolution Of The Word' Has Been Current For Three Quarters Of A Century. But, Although The Idea Is Hardly New, It Has Only Been In The Last 20 Years That We Have Begun To Recognize The Extent To Which Revolutionary Ideas About Language Have Permeated Almost Every Field Of Knowledge Since The Turn Of The Century.

Publishers Description: The idea of modern literature as a 'revolution of the word' has been current for three quarters of a century. But although the idea is hardly new, it has only been in the last 20 years that we have begun to recognize the extent to which revolutionary ideas about language have permeated almost every field of knowledge since the turn of the century. This book is the first of its kind to provide wide-ranging access to important intellectual contexts that have helped mould the production and reception of twentieth-century literature. Among the disciplinary fields embraced are: philosophy of science, theories of knowledge, anthropology, psychoanalysis, religion, and social and political theory. This volume picks its way through the tangled webs of our literary and intellectual history, sorting out the proliferation of contexts, of theses, methodologies and histories, drawing out connections as well as discontinuities between different orders of writing. A substantial introductory essay examines the relations between literature and intellectual history and addresses such issues as the relation between present and previous fin de siecles; the reconstruction of Modernism and the future of the postmodern; the political, epistemological, and ethical nature of literary writing; the relations between science and literature. Each section also offers a brief introductory commentary which connects with the themes elaborated in the main introduction.

ISBN: 9780340645604