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The Reach of Cultural Analysis: Some Cuttings

The Reach of Cultural Analysis: Some Cuttings William Moebius The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 154-157 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0001 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415332/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries REVIEW ESSAYS As he copiously acknowledges in the two introductory chapters on method, Amelang is greatly indebted throughout to theory and to literary as opposed to his- torical patterms ofinterpretation. Readers of TAe Comparatist will indeed recognize in Amelang's themes questions literary scholars have schooled themselves to ask about the canonical literary and philosophical texts they normally study. The author also expresses his debt to theory's help in overcoming the naïve perspectives through which historians often view popular documents and sources—though, as Richard J. Evans reminds us in his recent In Defense ofHistory (Norton, 1999), literary scholars tend to exaggerate historians' gullibility in this respect. Still, what Amelang takes from literary studies and from the cultural theorists on whom stu- dents of literature draw he gives back enriched many fold. The Flight ofIcarus is an indispensable research tool that, properly used, should alter the terms in which the nature, meaning, and origins of the "modem subject" are defined. ChristopherBraiderUniversity ofColorado, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

The Reach of Cultural Analysis: Some Cuttings

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William Moebius The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 154-157 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0001 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415332/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries REVIEW ESSAYS As he copiously acknowledges in the two introductory chapters on method, Amelang is greatly indebted throughout to theory and to literary as opposed to his- torical patterms ofinterpretation. Readers of TAe Comparatist will indeed recognize in Amelang's themes questions literary scholars have schooled themselves to ask about the canonical literary and philosophical texts they normally study. The author also expresses his debt to theory's help in overcoming the naïve perspectives through which historians often view popular documents and sources—though, as Richard J. Evans reminds us in his recent In Defense ofHistory (Norton, 1999), literary scholars tend to exaggerate historians' gullibility in this respect. Still, what Amelang takes from literary studies and from the cultural theorists on whom stu- dents of literature draw he gives back enriched many fold. The Flight ofIcarus is an indispensable research tool that, properly used, should alter the terms in which the nature, meaning, and origins of the "modem subject" are defined. ChristopherBraiderUniversity ofColorado,

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Published: Oct 3, 2012

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