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Critics of the Twentieth Century
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Raymond Williams
Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism
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.
more information about Raymond WilliamsNorthrop Frye
The Theoretical Imagination
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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Rhetoric and Ideology
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.
more information about Kenneth BurkeAntonio Gramsci
Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism
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.
more information about Antonio GramsciWilliam Empson
Prophet Against Sacrifice
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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Critic in the Public Sphere
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.
more information about Jurgen HabermasPaul Ricoeur
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.
more information about Paul RicoeurGeoffrey Hartman
Criticism as Answerable Style
`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.
more information about Geoffrey HartmanEzra Pound as Literary Critic
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.
more information about Ezra Pound as Literary CriticDeleuze and Guattari
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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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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