| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78248 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | According to Joseph North’s Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, the titular discipline is today the site of a hegemonic historicist/contextualist practice. It ascended to this hegemony by edging out a different literary practice, what I call textualism, first thought through by the New Critics but also yoked by them to religious themes. North argues that since historicism/contextualism transforms literary criticism into a site of knowledge production and the commodification of literature as part of the “neoliberalization” of the university, the time has come to return to textualist practice so as to combat this trend, if only at a discursive level. By closely reading texts by Emerson and Thoreau in the context of the search for Freedom amidst Necessity, I attempt in this thesis to synthesize a mode of textualism that can play a role in combatting the specific historical conjuncture currently frustrating literary criticism and political struggles at large. | |
| dcterms.available | 2018-06-21T13:38:43Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Scheckel, Susan | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Johnston, Justin | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Mastronikolas, Eleftherios | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-06-21T13:38:43Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2018-06-21T13:38:43Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of English | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 81 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78248 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2017-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.subject | English literature | |
| dcterms.title | Hermit-neutics: Textualism in H. D. Thoreau's Walden | |
| dcterms.type | Thesis | |
