Theoretical Issues in Literary History

Edited by David Perkins

    Introduction
    David Perkins

    Problems of Origin in Modern Literary History
    Ernst Behler

    Paul de Man, Modernist
    Ronald Bush

    Aristotle and the History of Tragedy
    Paul A. Cantor

    Genre Theory, Literary History, and Historical Change
    Ralph Cohen

    The Two Histories
    Alastair Fowler

    Postmodernism and Literary History
    John Frow

    Understanding Alterity: Ausländerliteratur between Relativism and Universalism
    Ulker Gokberk

    Transmission Failure
    Jon Klancher

    History, Herstory, Theirstory, Ourstory
    Jerome Mcgann

    Caliban and His Precursors: The Politics of Literary History and the Third World
    Michael Valdez Moses

    Measure and Countermeasure: The Lovejoy-Wellek Debate and Romantic Periodization
    Mark Parker

    Literary Classifications: How Have They Been Made?
    John Perkins

    Antihistoricism in Benedetto Croce and I. A. Richards
    John Paul Russo

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David Perkins is John P. Marquand Professor of English Literature, Harvard University.