M.H. Abrams (1912-) - Houston A. Baker, Jr. (1943-) - Walter Jackson Bate (1918-) - Harold Bloom (1930-) - Wayne C. Booth (1921-) - Jonathan D. Culler (1944-) - Paul de Man (1919-1983) - Leslie A. Fiedler (1917-) - Stanley Fish (1938-) - Northrop Frye (1912-) - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1950-) - Geoffrey H. Hartman (1929-) - E.D. Hirsch, Jr. (1928-) - Norman Holland (1927-) - Irving Howe (1920-) - Frederic Jameson (1934-) - Alfred Kazin (1915-) - Hugh Kenner (1923-) - Annette Kolodny (1941-) - Murray Krieger (1923-) - J. Hillis Miller (1928-) - Adrienne Rich (1929-) - Michael Rifflaterre (1924-) - Edward W. Said (1935-) - Elaine Showalter (1941-) - Susan Sontag (1933-) - George Steiner (1929-).
Summary
Provides discussions of the lives and ideas of the critics who played important roles in the development of the changing field of literary criticism. Covers contemporary figures that built upon, revised or rejected the tradition established by their predecessors. These writers often addressed vital cultural issues beyond the confines of the literature itself.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
