This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the New Criticism to the much-debated "Newreading" and "New Historicism." Two other essays discuss the emergence of the remarkably influential modern view that a work in the fine arts is an autonomous object, and another offers an extraordinary overview of the history of criticism from Plato and Aristotle to Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man.
This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, t...
In the half century since World War II, American academic culture has changed profoundly. Until now, those changes have not been charted, nor have their implications for current discussions of the academy been appraised. In this book, however, eminent academic figures who have helped to produce many of the changes of the last fifty years explore how four disciplines in the social sciences and humanities--political science, economics, philosophy, and literary studies--have been transformed.
Edited by the distinguished historians Thomas Bender and Carl Schorske, the book places...
In the half century since World War II, American academic culture has changed profoundly. Until now, those changes have not been charted, nor have ...
The real test of Abram's historical explanations is of course whether or not they "work" --whether, when we apply the criteria of correspondence and coherence (Just as in interpreting a poem), they "make sense" out of the particulars at hand and produce useful generalizations even in the face of competing historical interpretations. Abrams' work continues to hold up. --Jack Stillinger
The real test of Abram's historical explanations is of course whether or not they "work" --whether, when we apply the criteria of correspondence and c...
One of the deans of literary criticism in America, M. H. Abrams is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of two landmark books, The Mirror and the Lamp and Natural Supernaturalism, and general editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. This volume collects the essays, written over three decades, which together with his books testify to his preeminence. The essays examine Wordsworth s and Coleridge s innovations in their theories about the language of poetry; the prevalence, sources, and significance of a key Romantic image, the correspondent...
One of the deans of literary criticism in America, M. H. Abrams is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of two l...
