College Literature, October 1st, 1995
Recent literary scholarship has responded to contemporary theoretical pressures in a variety of ways. While most take issue with the interpretive conventions of the recent past, like Tolstoy's unhappy families they do so in their own ways. The range can be great, as these three studies demonstrate. As much might be expected from the trio's academic internationalism: Dhaka University, Harvard University, and University College London, respectively. However, none retreat to the New Critical assumption that works can be read, sui generis, in isolation from other informing (con)texts, and all mo...
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