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Robert Browning's Language.
From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20020101
Author:Fraser, Robert
Robert Browning's Language. By Donald S. Hair. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 1999. ix + 326 pp. $55; 40 [pounds sterling].
The reaction against the abstract, and absolutely conceived, categories of theory that has set in over the last few years has had the beneficial effect of concentrating the minds of some critics with a peculiar ferocity on the specificities of literature. One form that this has taken has been a reinforcement and amplification of the historic sense, as in the New Historicism. A second has manifested itself in a fastening on ...
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