The Unfolding of the Seasons

Cohen, Ralph

Literature & Fiction

Routledge& Kegan Paul

A Connecticut Maverick in King David's Court

Minerva Press

History And...: Histories Within the Human Sciences

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Univ of Virginia Pr

Ralph Cohen was highly regarded as the visionary founding editor of New Literary History, but his own theoretical essays appeared in such a scattering of publications that their conceptual originality, underlying coherence, and range of application have not been readily apparent. This new selection of twenty essays, many published here for the first time, offers a synthesis of Cohen’s vital work.
 In these pages Cohen introduces change and continuity as essential modes of discourse in the study of literary behavior, an approach that can produce reliable narratives of literary, artistic, and cultural change. Here Cohen conceptualizes and develops a compelling, innovative theory of genre that promotes a systematic study of historical change, offering rewarding insights for twenty-first-century scholars.

Genre Theory and Historical Change: Theoretical Essays of Ralph Cohen

History & Criticism

University of Virginia Press

This volume presents the proceedings from the conference on "Topology, Geometry, and Algebra: Interactions and New Directions" held in honor of R. James Milgram at Stanford University in August 1999. The meeting brought together distinguished researchers from a variety of areas related to algebraic topology and its applications. 
Papers in the book present a wide range of subjects, reflecting the nature of the conference. Topics include moduli spaces, configuration spaces, surgery theory, homotopy theory, knot theory, group actions, and more. Particular emphasis was given to the breadth of interaction between the different areas.

Topology, Geometry, and Algebra: Interactions and New Directions

Science & Math

Milgram, R. James

Cohen, Ralph L.

Adem, Alejandro

Carlsson, G.

Mathematics

Amer Mathematical Society

About the Author\nAt his death in 2016, Ralph Cohen was widely recognized as the preeminent theorist of genre. He founded and edited New Literary History, a multi-disciplinary journal of theory and interpretation. This book actualizes his vision of a new literary history and stands now as his magnum opus. 
John L. Rowlett is an independent scholar and former Program Director for the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia, USA.\nThe aim of this book is to orchestrate “a generic reconstitution of literary studies” based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking “An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,” a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen analyzes the generic transformations―including Addison’s ballad criticism in The Spectator, The London Merchant, Percy’s ballad editing in Reliques, and Barnwell. A Novel―in which this particular ballad exhibits remarkable continuity over the next four centuries, culminating with his personal re-formation; what was considered non-literary criticism becomes literary. This unique literary history reconceives narrative as a component of genre rather than a genre itself, demonstrates the ineluctably mixed nature of genres and the literary nature of our humanness, and analyzes the shifting generic contexts for interpretation and gender relations. Incorporating theory consciousness into the literary genre he is regenerating, Cohen offers a brilliant example of how future literary histories might be written.

Transformations of a Genre: A Literary History of the Beguiled Apprentice (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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