Russell Berman Quote

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)


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...