Revolutions of the Word by Patricia Waugh
Literary texts are revived and reformulated by each generation of readers, who bring their own historical understanding to bear on the writing of the past. This reader grapples with attempts to understand the way in which the past is continually rewritten in the present. It provides a collection of manifestos, essays and excerpts which offer access to important intellectual contexts which have helped to shape the production and reception of 20th-century literature. The texts have been grouped according to theses, methodologies and historical movements, with a short, explicatory, introductory essay with each section. The sections thereafter are arranged conceptually, but broadly chronologically, so as to show the various intellectual shifts of the century which have affected the writing and criticism of literature.Patricia Waugh is a well-known author and critic in the field of contemporary fiction and criticism. She is the author of Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Contemporary Literature (1997) and The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Backgrounds (1995). She's also produced a number of collections and anthologies on modern literary theory and postmodernism, the most recent of which was The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (co-edited with David Fuller).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340645604 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340645601 |
| Title | Revolutions of the Word |
| Author | Patricia Waugh |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder Arnold |
| Year published | 1996-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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