A note on literary criticism

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A note on literary criticism

by James T. Farrell

Columbia University Press, 1992

Morningside ed

  • : pbk.

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Originally published: Vanguard Press, 1936

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Volume

ISBN 9780231082563

Description

In this text, Farrell challenges the leading radical literary critics of the 1930s, such as Michael Gold and Granville Hicks, reconsidering issues including the relative autonomy of literature from society and economics; the role of tradition in literary creation; the relation of literature to propaganda; and the nature of aesthetic value.

Table of Contents

  • The duality of literature
  • impressionism
  • humanism
  • left-wing dualism
  • the literature of the past in the present
  • Marx on the relative aesthetic validity of literature
  • tradition in thought
  • the categories of "bourgeois" and "proletarian"
  • individualism and the class struggle
  • literature and propaganda
  • growth and decay in literature.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780231082570

Description

In this text, Farrell challenges the leading radical literary critics of the 1930s, such as Michael Gold and Granville Hicks, reconsidering issues including the relative autonomy of literature from society and economics; the role of tradition in literary creation; the relation of literature to propaganda; and the nature of aesthetic value.

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