Criticism and literary theory 1890 to the present
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Criticism and literary theory 1890 to the present
（Longman literature in English series）
Longman, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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csd ISBN 9780582033818
Description
This text aims to provide students with a critical introduction to the major developments in literary criticism and literary theory in English since the 1890s.
Table of Contents
- Descents from decadence - 1890-1918: the critical agenda
- aesthetes and academics
- modernism nascent
- Shakespeare the omniscient
- the novel and realism
- canons for everyman
- men of letters and great loins. The modernist revolution - 1918-1945: T.S. Eliot and the critical agenda
- "classical"and "romantic" positions
- close reading and the rise of new criticism
- crisis and criticism
- Shakespeare in space
- theories of the novel
- canons of modernist revaluation
- the destructive element. Beyond the new criticism - 1945-1968: the critical agenda
- high-tide of new criticism
- alternatives to new criticism
- more Shakespearean themes
- the rise of the novel
- canons for courses
- the Babel of interpretations. Literary theory and textual policies - since 1968: "theory" and the critical agenda
- textualitites - structuralism and beyond
- contextualisms - new-left and feminist critiques
- Shakespearean subversions
- the novel re-opened
- canonicities in question
- limits to postcriticism.
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ppr ISBN 9780582033832
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Presents a coherent and accessible historical account of the major phases of British and American Twentieth-century criticism, from 'decadent' aestheticism to feminist, decontsructonist and post-colonial theories. Special attention is given to new perspectives on Shakesperean criticism, theories of the novel and models of the literary canon. The book will help to define and account for the major developments in literary criticism during this century exploring the full diversity of critical work from major critics such as T S Eliot and F R Leavis to minor but fascinating figures and critical schools. Unlike most guides to modern literary theory, its focus is firmly on developments within the English speaking world.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Descents from Decadence: 1890-19183. The Modernist Revolution: 1918-1945 4. Beyond the new Criticism: 1945-1968 5. Literary Theory and Textual Politics: Since 1968 Chronology
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