History and Criticism

Dominick LaCapra

Published by Cornell University Press 1992

History and Criticism

Dominick LaCapra

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727443

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"LaCapra offers an intriguing collection of essays to support both his enthusiasm for intellectual history... and his concern about the 'excesses' he finds in techniques and practices of the new social history. Admitting that the essays are...

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Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books, including History, Literature, Critical Theory; History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.

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LaCapra offers an intriguing collection of essays to support both his enthusiasm for intellectual history... and his concern about the 'excesses' he finds in techniques and practices of the new social history. Admitting that the essays are polemical with a 'measure of exaggeration and a stylization of arguments,' LaCapra seeks to restore the historian's appreciation for 'great' literature, the techniques of literary criticism, and the rhetoric that must be studied and analyzed to integrate this criticism into historical analysis. LaCapra calls for an engaged dialogue with the past on both an objective and a subjective plane.... [He] shows great familiarity with (and due respect for) recent innovations of social historians and theoreticians using the Annales approach. As a critique of their work as well as a defense of LaCapra's alternatives, this is a valuable study.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
1. Rhetoric and History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Twentieth-Century Historian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Is Everyone a Mentalite Case? Transference and the "Culture" Concept Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4. Writing the History of Criticism Now? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. History and the Novel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 152
Keywords: Europe; History; Literary Studies

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Published: August 6, 2018
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