Cunning Passages New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, and Marxism in the Contemporary Literary Debate
Cunning Passages explores the implications such debates have for our attempts to understand both reports of historical events, such as Hiroshima or the Nazi holocaust, and also fictional and poetic works whose relation to historical actuality is more complex and indirect. The book interrogates a range of other texts from, primarily, the period of high modernism, in the light of these theoretical debates.