10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HISTORICISM»
Discover the use of
historicism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
historicism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action.
But what exactly does it entail? In this lucid volume, Paul Hamilton provides the essential guide to the history of the term, its uses and the critical terminology of historicist approaches.
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The Poverty of
Historicism
Hailed on publication in 1957 as 'probably the only book published this year that will outlive the century', this is a devastating criticism of the idea that there are fixed laws in history and that human beings are able to predict them.
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Practicing New
Historicism
In this dazzling, seminal volume, two of the discipline's most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and far-reaching effects.
Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt, 2001
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Historicism: The Once and Future Challenge for Theology
Davaney's authoritative text traces with clarity and skill the history of historicism and its various meanings, for the German Enlightenment through its Continental and distinctly American developments to its contemporary postmodern ...
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New Literary Histories: New
Historicism and Contemporary ...
This text considers these questions and aims to show that the problem of historicism, and new historicism, is more than just a problem of knowledge-validity and that new historicism is not so much an answer to the difficulties of history ...
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New
Historicism and Cultural Materialism
In this study, John Brannigan explains the development of new historicism and cultural materialism and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices.
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Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy
In Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy, David D. Roberts uses the ideological conflict between Croce and Gentile as a basis for a wider discussion of the interplay between politics and ideas in Italy during the early-twentieth century.
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Moments of Negotiation: The New
Historicism of Stephen ...
In this new book, Jürgen Pieters attempts to fill a remarkable lacuna in the critical reception of Greenblatt's work. The book's aim is to provide a thorough analysis of the theoretical background of Greenblatt's method.
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Pragmatic
Historicism: A Theology for the Twenty-first Century
Presents a new option in theology, "pragmatic historicism" which emerges out of the historicist assumptions of recent Western thought and resists both confessionalism and universalism.
Sheila Greeve Davaney, 2000
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HISTORICISM»
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historicism is used in the context of the following news items.
Eight Films That Didn't Deserve Their Initial Reception | PopMatters
Not to engage in any sort of historicism, looking back from the present on those poor, deluded past folk and tsk-tsking, but these stars weren't ... «PopMatters, Jul 15»
Ellen or Wojtyla? A Priest Decides
Yet no plausible reading of Newman can make him a friend to relativism and historicism, whatever certain thinkers on the Catholic Left may ... «First Things, Jul 15»
Cardinal Kasper: Modernist in Our Midst?
Historicism is the heresy that supposes that the events of history have no overarching meaning or purpose. Things just happen and people ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
David Ligare at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
... Postmodern architects like Leon Krier who gave me a greater sense of how Neo-historicism can affect city planning and social organizations. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Commentary: Muslims Need to Counter Violent Jihadists' Claim to …
The extremist jihadist view of Islamic identity, though, perpetuates its own idealism and historicism. In a historical context, jihadists are no ... «Jakarta Globe, Jul 15»
Egyptian Artist Wael Shawky Is Pulling the Strings of Crusade and …
A revelatory scene, the first to establish the historicism and subject of the film, The Secrets of Karbala (2015), the last of the trilogy, Cabaret ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Muslims need to counter violent jihadists' claim to represent Islam
The extremist jihadist view of Islamic identity, though, perpetuates its own idealism and historicism. In a historical context, jihadists are no ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
Turkey's Alevis and 'the reckoning of pluralism'
At another he ponders: “By means of what sentiments, rhetorics, and practices has historicism's linear temporality become, not merely ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»
Two cheers for the Declaration of Independence: The weird …
We like to congratulate ourselves, in the present tense, for our superior wisdom and our enlightened position (an error known as “historicism”), ... «Salon, Jul 15»
Re: Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened–Noam Chomsky 1
... arguments, and if we could also add, wrongheaded pretensions at historicism, the latter being factually and intellectually anemic at best. «GhanaWeb, Jul 15»
