Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780582484221 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 704 str.

David Lodge

Opis

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism is an anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. The critics collected together in this volume have been drawn from England, America and Europe, and each essay has been prefaced by an editor's introduction.

Spis treści

Foreword  Part I. Formal criticism - structural and rhetorical analysis - 'New criticism' - literary techniques and conventions  Part II. Literary History - history of ideas  Part III. Criticism of literature in its social and political contexts - Marxist criticism - cultural history and analysis  Part IV. Myth criticism - archetypes and the collective unconscious  Part V. Psycho-analytical approaches  Part VI. Prescriptive criticism - credos and manifesoes

O autorze

David Lodge is an English author and literary critic, previously Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham until 1987.