Theorizing American Literature: Hegel, the Sign and History

By Bainard Cowan

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This collection of essays intends to challenge conventional notions of what constitutes an American national literature. The new reading of Hegel in recent philosophy and critical theory subjects history and language to a thorough critique. Yet the connection of Hegel to American discourse has largely gone unexplored, and literary theorists have scarcely begun to interrogate the priorities of Hegelianism implicit in American literary history. The essays collected in Theorizing American Literature thus organize their arguments around the necessity to rethink the process of historicizing American literature and to redefine the terms of discussion of some of its most familiar authors.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807116289

ISBN13:9780807116289

Release Date:January 1991

Publisher:Louisiana State University Press

Length:294 Pages

Weight:1.51 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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