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Contains essays on the transformation of human understanding that is under way in humanistic and social scientific inquiry today.
The issues addressed in this volume include the limits of language and the need for linguistic form, the significance of creating.
"This book is a joint effort of four Kirkland searchers who believe they are all (husband, in one case) descendants of the Richard Kirkland family living in Fairfax Co., Va., in the early 1700's. By way of N.C., some of his sons and possibly daughters, came into South Carolina. One of these sons was named Richard, who died in South Carolina in 1774. This Richard was the father of the notorious Moses Kirkland who turned Tory and is probably the most written about Kirkland there is. Over the years we have collected many Kirkland records. We are sure that some of these definitely belong to this family, but we have many that may or may not. Mrs. Green suggested that we compile our records into a book to share with others and call it a source book ..."--Foreword (leaf after t.p., v. 1).
Many of the essays in this issue deal with the Romantic Age, when there arose the special kind of historical thinking called historicism. The collection mainly contributes studies of specific literary works, each being aware of the theory and method of history in relation to literature.