![]() ![]() In contrast, a text is a deanimated linguistic structure - a document - removed from sociohistorical context. McGann is Dreyfuss Professor of Humanities at California Institute of Technology and editor of the five-volume Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works now in progress from Oxford University Press.Īt the heart of a crisis in contemporary literary criticism is the systematic use of 'text' for 'poem.' According to Jerome McGann, a poem is a social event - a work of literature - embedded in a dynamic, multilayered historical and ideological context. McGann are discussed in this essay: The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), and The Beauty of 1nflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985). Collected in Attack of the Difficult Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2011) ![]() ![]() [Originally published in Sulfur 15, January 1986. ![]()
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