Title:
Modern literary criticism and theory : a history
Author:
Habib, Rafey.
ISBN:
9781405176675
9781405176668
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Physical Description:
viii, 252 p. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Contents:
1. The First Decades: From Liberal Humanism to Formalism -- 2. Socially Conscious Criticism of the Earlier Twentieth Century -- 3. Criticism and Theory After the Second World War -- 4. The Era of Poststructuralism (I): Later Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction -- 5. The Era of Poststructuralism (II): Postmodernism, Modern Feminism, Gender Studies -- 6. The Later Twentieth Century: New Historicism, Reader-Response Theory, and Postcolonial Criticism -- 7. Cultural Studies and Film Theory -- 8. Contemporary Directions: The Return of the Public Intellectual -- Epilogue: The Myth of Liberal Humanism.
Abstract:
"This book provides an account of modern criticism and theory. It provides a historical survey of the various modes of literary criticism developed in the twentieth century. It not only provides the larger historical contexts of modern critical works, but also engages in close readings of some of the major and commonly taught texts offering clear, detailed, and philosophically informed explanations of difficult works."--BOOK JACKET.
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