A collection of some of Pearce's best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond positivist historiography and formalist explication de texie toward a criticism which vitally engages the reader in what he reads and puts him m a position of judging himself and his culture, past and present.
Originally published in 1969.
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- ISBN10 0691061556
- ISBN13 9780691061559
- Publish Date 21 June 1969
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 374
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/1691.html