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The Romance of Criticism
New Literary History Pub Date : 2021-04-29
Joel M. Childers

Abstract:

This essay argues for the centrality of romance to our ideas of literary history from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. It considers the enduring appeal of this form in enabling critics to do two things at once: conceive of history as a social totality, registered across time in the felt language of poetry, and attend to the particularities of time and place in which any given romance is written. With special attention to scholarship of the so-called romance revival, this essay demonstrates the importance of romance to narratives of racial identity and difference, above all to an eighteenth-century vision of history as propelled by (settler) colonial violence. It queries what role these narratives have in our own ongoing romance of criticism.



中文翻译:

批评浪漫

摘要:

本文主张浪漫主义在我们从18世纪到20世纪的文学史观念中的中心地位。它认为这种形式的持久吸引力在于使评论家能够同时做两件事:将历史视为一种社会整体,以诗歌的感觉语言跨时注册,并关注任何给定浪漫史的时间和地点的特殊性被写。本文特别关注所谓浪漫史复兴的学术研究,这表明浪漫史对种族身份和差异叙事的重要性,尤其是对殖民者暴力推动下的18世纪历史观。它质疑这些叙事在我们不断进行的批评浪漫中起什么作用。

更新日期:2021-04-29
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