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The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals): Explorations in the Idoelogy of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan book cover

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The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals) Explorations in the Idoelogy of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan

By John Fekete Copyright 1977
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory. It interrogates, comprehensively and in detail, the assumptions and categorical development within critical ideas from I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot, through John Crowe Ransom and the New Criticism, to Northrop Frye and Marshall NcLuhan. This analysis... Read more

Foreword by Raymond Williams;  Preface;  Acknowledgements;  Abbreviations;  Part I: General Introduction Structures and Genesis  1. Nineteenth-Century Problematics  2. Foundations of Modern Critical Theory  3. Paradigm in Motion;  Part II: John Crowe Ransom The Critical Theory of Defensive Reaction  4. Introduction to John Crowe Ransom  5. Fugitive and Post-Fugitive  6. Agrarianism  7. New Criticism  8. Conclusion to Ransom;  Part III: Northrop Frye The Critical Theory of Capitulation  9. Mythological Structuralism;  Part IV: Marshall McLuhan The Critical Theory of Counterrevolution  10. Introduction to McLuhan  11. Three Phases of Development  12. Technocratic ideology of One-Dimensionality  13. Conclusion to McLuhan;  Part V: General Conclusion Struggle  14. Politics of Cultural Ideology;  Appendices;  Notes;  Selected Bibliography;  Index

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John Fekete

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