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Literary Criticism: A Short History Modern Criticism
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.
Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other... Read more
Volume Four: Modern Criticism; 25: Tragedy and Comedy: The Internal Focus; 26: Symbolism; 27: I. A. Richards: A Poetics of Tension; 28: The Semantic Principle; 29: Eliot and Pound: An Impersonal Art; 30: Fiction and Drama: The Gross Structure; 31: Myth and Archetype; Part Five: 32: Epilogue; Index
Biography
William K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Cleanth Brooks
