| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 565 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Louis Menand and Lawrence Rainey -- THE MODERNISTS -- T.S. Eliot / Louis Menand -- Ezra Pound / A. Walton Litz and Lawrence Rainey -- Gertrude Stein / Steven Meyer -- Virginia Woolf / Maria DiBattista -- Wyndham Lewis / Vincent Sherry -- W.B. Yeats / Lucy McDiarmid -- The Harlem Renaissance / Michael North -- THE NEW CRITICS -- I.A. Richards / Paul H. Fry -- The Southern New Critics / Mark Jancovich -- William Empson / Michael Wood -- R.P. Blackmur / Michael Wood -- Kenneth Burke / Eugene Goodheart -- Yvor Winters / Donald Davie -- THE CRITIC AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF CULTURE -- Criticism and the academy / Wallace Martin -- The critic and society, 1900-1950 / Morris Dickstein -- The British 'Man of Letters' and the rise of the professional / Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small -- F.R. Leavis / Michael Bell -- Lionel Trilling / Harvey Teres -- Poet-critics / Lawrence Lipking -- Criticism of Fiction / Michael Levenson |
| Summary |
This volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, first published in 2000, provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats), continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters), and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, Trilling and others who helped form the modern institutions of literary culture. The core period covered is 1910-60, but explicit connections are made with nineteenth-century traditions and there is discussion of the implications of modernism and the New Criticism for our own time, with its inherited formalism, anti-sentimentalism, and astringency of tone. The book provides a companion to the other twentieth-century volumes of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, and offers a systematic and stimulating coverage of the development of the key literary-critical movements, with chapters on groups and genres as well as on individual critics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Criticism -- History
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American literature.
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Criticism.
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English literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Litz, A. Walton
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Menand, Louis
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Rainey, Lawrence S
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| ISBN |
9781139053730 |
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1139053736 |
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9781139053730 |
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