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Presentism (Literary analysis)


  • Here are entered works on criticism in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past.

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    • Presentist criticism
    • Presentist literary criticism

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    • Wikidatapresentism Offsite linkLabel from public data source Wikidata

  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: 2008029929: Gajowski, Evelyn. Presentism, gender, and sexuality in Shakespeare, 2009:ECIP galley introduction (Presentist literary criticism; "Presentist" approaches: those oriented towards the text's meaning in the present, as opposed to "historicist" approaches oriented to meanings in the past)
    • found: www.palgrave.com, July 16, 2008(Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare is an important new contribution to the developing field of Presentist criticism in Shakespeare studies)
    • found: OCLC, JUly 16, 2008(bib. record Presentist Shakespeare)
    • found: www.routledgelanguages.com, July 16, 2008(Presentist Shakespeares is the first extended study of the principles and practice of "presentism", a critical movement that takes account of the dialogue between past and present)
    • found: Wikipedia, July 16, 2008(Presentism (literary and historical analysis); Presentism is a mode of historical analysis in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past)

  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on criticism in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past.

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  • Change Notes

    • 2008-07-31: new
    • 2008-08-06: revised

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