The Tradition of Return :The Implicit History of Modern Literature ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle :The Implicit History of Modern Literature

Publication series :Princeton Legacy Library

Author: Perl Jeffrey M.;;;  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400856381

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691066219

Subject: I106 the classics and study

Keyword: 世界文学

Language: ENG

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Jeffrey Perl presents in this book a comprehensive reassessment of modernism and an effort to enrich our understanding of the direction literary culture has taken since the Renaissance.

Originally published in 1984.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Acknowledgments

Prologue

1. Nostos: An Introduction

2. The Process of Return

3. Classicism, an Historical Explanation

II. The History of an Ideology: Case Studies

4. Tragedy

5. Novel and Epic: Reading Backwards from Ulysses

6. Novel and Epic: The Ithaca of History

7. Myth

8. The Politics of Return: An Admonitory Postlogue

Notes

Index

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