| Description |
xi, 323 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Understanding criticism -- The sacred jungle 1: Carlyle, Eliot, Bloom -- The sacred jungle 2: Walter Benjamin -- The sacred jungle 3: Frye, Burke, and some conclusions -- Purification and danger 1: American poetry -- Purification and danger 2: critical style -- pt. 2 . The work of reading -- Literary commentary as literature -- Centaur: on the psychology of the critic -- Past and present -- Coda Polemical pieces The recognition scene of criticism -- Criticism, indeterminacy, irony -- A short history of practical criticism |
| Analysis |
Criticism History 20th century |
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Literature Criticism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 302-314 |
| Subject |
Criticism -- History -- 20th century.
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Criticism -- 20th century.
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Criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
80013491 |
| ISBN |
0300020856 |
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