| Description |
xvii, 395 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
1. Historical critic: Odysseus' scar / Erich Auerbach -- From The death of tragedy / George Steiner -- English novel and the three kinds of time / John Henry Raleigh -- Religion, poetry, and the "dilemma" of the modern writer / David Daiches -- Symbolism and fiction / Harry Levin -- 2. Formalist critic: Problems of poetry / Paul Valery -- Literary criticism: poet, poem, reader / Cleanth Brooks -- Telling and showing / Wayne C. Booth -- Composition and fate in the short novel / Howard Nemerov -- Audible reading of poetry / Yvor Winters -- What to say about a poem / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. -- 3. Sociocultural critic: Fate of pleasure / Lionel Trilling -- Visionary individualists / Stephen Spender -- Ideology of modernism / Georg Lukacs -- Fiction of anti-utopia / Irving Howe -- Political theatre reconsidered / Eric Bentley -- 4. Psychological critic: Psychological depths and "Dover Beach" / Norman N. Holland -- Catharsis: second view / Kenneth Burke -- Creative experience in poetry / Herbert Read -- Molière / Georges Poulet -- Novel and America / Leslie A. Fiedler -- 5. Mythopoeic critic: Myth and ritual approach to Shakespearean tragedy / Herbert Weisinger -- "Myth" and the literary scruple / Francis Fergusson -- Drunken boat: the revolutionary element in romanticism / Northrop Frye -- Homo Faber and poetry / Paul Ginestier -- Quest hero / W.H. Auden. |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. |
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Criticism -- History -- 20th century.
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Criticism. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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