Partial Answers

Infobox Journal


discipline = Literature, History
abbreviation = PAN
website = http://partialanswers.huji.ac.il/
publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press
country = USA
history = 2004 to present
ISSN = 1565-3668

"Partial Answers": Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the study of literature and the history of ideas. It is this interdisciplinary component that is responsible for combining analysis of literary works with discussions on historical and theoretical issues. The Journal publishes articles on various national literatures including Anglophone, Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Russian, and predominantly English literature. The Journal strives to explore ways in which literary texts can be perceived both as works of art and as testing grounds for ideas; literary works participate in the history of ideas, whether understood as a continuous line of development, as a process of inheriting and correcting schemas, or as a sequence of archaeological layers; literary texts negotiate ideological changes; period concepts and debates impinge on the shape of the literary texts; the evolution of ideas affects our reading of the literature of the past; individual texts reflect the changing ideas about literature itself. The Journal was awarded "Best New Journal of 2004" by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ)

The journal is published twice a year in January and June. The average length of an issue is 192 pages. Leona Toker of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is its Editor.

External links

* [http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/partial_answers/ Journal home page]
* [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/partial_answers/ Partial Answers at Project MUSE]
* [http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~toker/ Home page of Leona Toker]