2nd Edition

American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s

By Vincent B. Leitch Copyright 2010
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s fully updates Vincent B. Leitch’s classic book, American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s following the development of the American academy right up to the present day. Updated throughout and with a brand new chapter, this second edition: provides a critical history of American literary theory and practice, discussing the... Read more

Preface  1. Marxist Criticism in the 1930s  2. The "New Criticism"  3. The Chicago School  4. The New York Intellectuals  5. Myth Criticism  6. Phenominological and Existential Criticism  7. Hermenuitics  8. Reader-Response Criticism  9. Literary Structuralism and Semiotics 10. Deconstructive Criticism  11. Feminist Criticism 12. Black Aesthetics 13. Cultural Criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s  14. American Criticism Since 1987.  Notes.  Index

Biography

Vincent B. Leitch