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Critics of the Twentieth Century

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Raymond Williams

Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism

By John Higgins

Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty years. This...

ISBN: 978-0-415-02344-3 | Published March 18th 1999 by Routledge.

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Northrop Frye

The Theoretical Imagination

By Jonathan Hart

Northrop Frye is acknowledged to be one of the great critics of the twentieth century. The Anatomy of Criticism (1957) transformed literary theory, and his...

ISBN: 978-0-415-07537-4 | Published April 7th 1994 by Routledge.

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Kenneth Burke

Rhetoric and Ideology

By Stephen Bygrave

Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology is a lucid and accessible introduction to a major twentieth-century thinker those ideas have influenced fields as diverse as literary...

ISBN: 978-0-415-02211-8 | Published April 8th 1993 by Routledge.

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Antonio Gramsci

Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism

By Renate Holub

This book provides the first detailed account of Gramsci's work in the context of current critical and socio-cultural debates. Renate Holub argues that Gramsci was...

ISBN: 978-0-415-02108-1 | Published May 7th 1992 by Routledge.

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William Empson

Prophet Against Sacrifice

By Paul H. Fry

William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice provides the most coherent account of Empson's diverse career to date. While exploring the richness of Empson's comic genius, Paul...

ISBN: 978-0-415-02482-2 | Published November 7th 1991 by Routledge.

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Jurgen Habermas

Critic in the Public Sphere

By Robert C. Holub

The most important intellectual in the Federal Republic of Germany for the past three decades, Habermas has been a seminal contributor to fields ranging from...

ISBN: 978-0-415-06511-5 | Published September 5th 1991 by Routledge.

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Paul Ricoeur

By Steven H. Clark

No contemporary thinker has participated in more intellectual debates in the post-war period than Paul Ricoeur. His writings evolved from an initial concern with existentialism...

ISBN: 978-0-415-05840-7 | Published November 22nd 1990 by Routledge.

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Geoffrey Hartman

Criticism as Answerable Style

By G. Douglas Atkins

`The critic explicitly acknowledges his dependence on prior words that make his word a kind of answer. He calls to other texts "that they might...

ISBN: 978-0-415-02094-7 | Published November 15th 1990 by Routledge.

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Ezra Pound as Literary Critic

By Emeritus Professor K K Ruthven, K. K. Ruthven

Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on a great deal of information about Pound's activities as a literary critic (some...

ISBN: 978-0-415-02074-9 | Published November 8th 1990 by Routledge.

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Deleuze and Guattari

By Ronald Bogue

The philosopher Giles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst and political activist Felix Guattari have been recognised as among the most important intellectual figures of their generation....

ISBN: 978-0-415-02443-3 | Published March 2nd 1989 by Routledge.

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F.R. Leavis

By Michael Bell

Leavis's example and preoccupations still largely underlie the teaching of English literature in UK universities, and he remains the most substantial embodiment of the liberal...

ISBN: 978-0-415-00898-3 | Published November 3rd 1988 by Routledge.

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