| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 223 pages) |
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SUNY series, literature ... in theory
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SUNY series, literature ... in theory.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Culturalism, Historicism, Realism -- Overview -- Chapter 1 Culturalism, Vulnerability, and Transience -- A Shared Vulnerability -- Culturalist Genealogies -- Cultural Extinction: From Periphery to Center -- Maria Edgeworth and the Birth of the Novel of Peripheral Decline -- Walter Scott: Historicizing the Decline-on-the-Periphery Motif -- Realist and Regionalist Trajectories -- Chapter 2 An Ironist's Elegy: Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence -- Postwar -- Between Wharton and Archer -- The Realist Cul-de-Sac |
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"After a while nothing matters" or Wharton's Temporalization of Value -- Wharton and Archer Revisited -- Chapter 3 "Und siehe da: Es gab also fremde Länder!": Joseph Roth's Parochializing of Empire -- "Translating the Stranger": The Ethnoliterary Roth -- Empire as Cultural World: The Radetzky March -- The "Abysmal, Worthless, Stupid, Steely Law" of Culture -- Alien Children -- The All-Too-Human Emperor Franz Joseph -- Chapter 4 The Culturalization of Zionism: Yaakov Shabtai's Past Continuous -- A Different Kind of Elite -- "A world with no place to hide": Shabtai's Knowing Narrator |
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On Knowing and Dying: Shabtai's Anti-Philosophicalism -- The Twice-Born Uncle Lazar -- Chapter 5 Culturalism and Historicism in Contemporary Intellectual Life -- Our Tribal Humanities -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- History -- 20th century.
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Social change in literature.
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Culture in literature.
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Fiction -- Social aspects.
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Fiction -- Social aspects |
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Culture in literature |
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Fiction |
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Literature and society |
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Social change in literature |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evron, Nir, 1976- Blossom which we are. Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2020] 9781438480671 (OCoLC)1154526834 |
| ISBN |
1438480695 |
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9781438480695 (electronic bk.) |
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1438480679 |
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9781438480671 |
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