New Literary History : A Journal of Theory & Interpretation is a quarterly academic journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press . It focuses on the history and theory of literature, and key questions of interpretation. The journal has received six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals .
8-563: From its inception in 1969, through 2008, New Literary History was under the editorship of its founder, Ralph Cohen. As of 2019, it is edited by Bruce Holsinger ( University of Virginia ). New Literary History was established as part of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of the University of Virginia in 1969 by Ralph Cohen. At the time, according to Cohen, there was no "English literary journal devoted to critical theory or to
16-461: A crucial role in expanding the concerns of literary criticism beyond the close reading of individual literary texts, characteristic of the New Criticism , and in introducing British and American scholars to methodologies and theoretical approaches to literature from continental Europe. According to Wolfgang Iser , It was Ralph Cohen's editorial policy to raise issues that were not in the orbit of
24-405: A reconsideration of literary history, its nature and possibilities. New Literary History was conceived as a move against the critical current; its aim was to inquire into the theoretical bases of practical criticism and, in doing so, to reexamine the relation between past works and present critical and theoretical needs." The journal publishes essays that deal with the nature of literary theory,
32-424: Is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members and managing them. The term is often used at newspapers , magazines , yearbooks , and television news programs. The editor-in-chief is commonly the link between the publisher or proprietor and
40-433: The aims of literature, the idea of literary history, the reading process, hermeneutics, the relation of linguistics to literature, literary change, literary value, the definitions of periods and their uses in interpretations, the evolution of styles, conventions, and genres, as well as articles from other disciplines that help interpret or define the problems of literary history or literary study. New Literary History played
48-447: The discipline when the journal was launched, such as: What is Literature, History, Interpretation, Criticism, and to what extent does the exploration of these issues require a theoretical approach? Thus basic presuppositions and assumptions of the study of literature came under close scrutiny which, in turn, had to be contextualized in order to trace the provenance of what has been posited in the theoretical approaches concerned. The journal
56-438: The editorial staff. The term is also applied to academic journals , where the editor-in-chief gives the ultimate decision whether a submitted manuscript will be published. This decision is made by the editor-in-chief after seeking input from reviewers selected on the basis of relevant expertise. For larger journals, the decision is often upon the recommendation of one of several associate editors who each have responsibility for
64-545: Was characterized by "an attempt to bring Anglo-American criticism into a close interrelationship with Continental approaches to literature and culture; it gave New Literary History a unique profile." In 2001, New Literary History became "the first English-language literary journal to be printed in Chinese", with a selection of its essays translated and published in Chinese annually. Editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief ( EIC ), also known as lead editor or chief editor ,
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