1st Edition
Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism
1328 Pages
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Routledge
1320 Pages
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Routledge
1328 Pages
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Routledge
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This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are... Read more
1. Introduction Literature Criticism 2. Literature and History 3. Poetry 4. Drama 5. The Novel 6. Criticism 7. Production and Reception 8. Contexts 9. Perspectives 10. Afterword: W(h)ither 'English'? Index
Biography
Martin Coyle, Peter Garside, Malcolm Kelsall, John Peck
`Censorship, aestheticism, African literature, and current developments in criticism. All this and more is in Routledge's stimulating Encyclopedia ... It is primarily an accessible review of critics' approaches to the study of literature, past and present. Essays by 90 hands discuss the many different ways of evaluating literature. This guarantees a certain amount of ferment in the reader. No sooner is one persuaded that one approach is valuable when the next essay presents an attractive alternative.' - Library Association Record
`The stimulating essays, which exhibit and criticize literature, have many powerful features.' - Review of English Studies
