Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to allow for the cross-generational flourishing of tradition, and open the present to a multidimensional temporality.


p. 20. - Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty and Western Culture (2007)

Russell Berman Quotes

Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to allow for the cross-generational...

Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to allow for the cross-generational...

Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to allow for the cross-generational...

Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to allow for the cross-generational...