Screen LibraryThe tradition of return : the implicit history of modern literature /
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...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[1984] ©1984 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400856381 |
| Index Number: | PN701 |
| CLC: | I109.5 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- I. Nostos: An Introduction -- II. The Process of Return -- III. Classicism, an Historical Explanation -- IV. Tragedy -- V. Novel and Epic: Reading Backwards from Ulysses -- VI. Novel and Epic: The Ithaca of History -- VII. Myth -- VIII. The Politics of Return: An Admonitory Postlogue -- Notes -- Index. |