Retrospectives
Subtitle: essays in literature, poetics and cultural history
By: Terence Cave ; edited by Neil Kenny and Wes Williams
Contributors: Kenny, Neil; Williams, Wes
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781905981953
Subjects: French literature; History and criticism; Renaissance
Description: "Terence Cave's work has made a major contribution to the rethinking of the relationship between literature, history and culture over the last half-century. Retrospectives brings together substantially revised versions of studies written since 1970: together they constitute a searching methodological investigation of the practice of reading past texts. How do our ways of reading such texts compare with those practised in the periods when they were written? How do we distinguish between what a text meant in its own time and what it has come to mean over time? And how might reading provide access to past experiences? The book's epicentre is early modern French culture, but it extends to that culture's ancient Greek and Roman models, its European contexts, and the afterlives of some of its themes, from Pascal via George Eliot to Angela Carter."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.