In a trenchant critique of the full range of theoretical discourses that have come into favor in literary studies since the 1960s, Tony Hilfer demonstrates that none of the practitioners of these forms of criticism subject their own claims to the kind of suspicious scrutiny that they devote to their own objects of study. Assimilating the critiques that have been made of almost all of the major recent modes of criticism-Marxism, feminism, deconstruction, New Historicism, Foucaultian-Hilfer brings them acutely to bear on his central argument: that these methods systematically fail to live up to...
In a trenchant critique of the full range of theoretical discourses that have come into favor in literary studies since the 1960s, Tony Hilfer demonst...
Hilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as a genre distinct from the detective novel, whose conventions it subverts to develop conventions of its own.
Hilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as a genre distinct from the detective novel, whose conventions it subverts ...
Part of the "Longman Literature in English" series, this text examines American fiction between 1940 and 1991. Amongst the areas covered are the emergence of African American Fiction, Southern Fiction, Jewish American Fiction, postmodernism as Black humour and fiction by women.
Part of the "Longman Literature in English" series, this text examines American fiction between 1940 and 1991. Amongst the areas covered are the emerg...