![]() One word is still there, still holding court. Lewis, The American Adam (1955) Sacvan Bercovitch, The American Jeremiad (1978) Myra Jehlen, American Incarnation: The Individual, The Nation, and The Continent (1986) and Walter Benn Michaels, Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (1995).Ī lot has changed in the past 60 years, but one thing has not. ![]() Matthiessen, American Renaissance (1941) R. Here is a list of some of the most influential books in the field, published in the past 60 years: F. Could this commitment be considered as having originated in Barthes’s thinking about the Middle Ages?Īmerican Literary History 13.4 (2001) 755-775 There is, in the Micheletian history of the Middle Ages as Barthes reads it, a space which, from the point of view of modernity, can be called a writing space in the sense of practice (involving the body of the scriptor) and inscription (of a tradition of writing: institutional commitment). ![]() The Barthesian reflection on writing the Middle Ages already reveals, as in a palimpsest, a positioning: this is what modernity calls “commitment.” But this position is also a shift, a shift from the Sartrean “pure,” absolute commitment towards another form of commitment aware of the individual agencies of the writer: someone who practices writing and who, in the exercise of writing, posits themselves. ![]() In Michelet, Barthes’s historical reflection on the evolution of writing unfolds between two poles of fascination: the one with Michelet, which takes the shape of a “critique thématique” (thematic criticism), and the other with History, from which Barthes gradually detaches himself during the 1970s. ![]()
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