{"product_id":"9780198117506","title":"The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith emphasis on the theoretical and methodological, the studies collected here serve a dual purpose: to explore the fault lines that mark various kinds of ahistorical literary studies from New Criticism to Poststructuralism; and to develop a fully elaborated socio-historical criticism for literary works. McGann moves toward his goal by means of four special sets of investigations: the relation between the so-called \"autonomous\" poem and its political\/historical contexts; the relation of reception and history to literary interpretation; the problems of canon and the characterization of period; and the ideological dimensions of both literary works and criticism of such works. Central to his enquiry is the notion that, whether viewed as an experience or as an event, a literary work is a nexus of various concrete social determinations that can be specified as an aesthetic order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048053129456,"sku":"9780198117506","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780198117506_p0.jpg?v=1763665821","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780198117506","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}