The author provides a series of closely-linked essays on criticism in the 20th century, emphasizing the shift from journalistic and historical criticism - the "man of letters" tradition - to formal, academic and theoretical criticism. This is a development that comes full circle with the recent rediscovery by theorists of a number of cultural and historical approaches to literature that had been shunned in the 1960s and 1970s. At once a selective history of American criticism in this century and an overview of the tradition ...
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The author provides a series of closely-linked essays on criticism in the 20th century, emphasizing the shift from journalistic and historical criticism - the "man of letters" tradition - to formal, academic and theoretical criticism. This is a development that comes full circle with the recent rediscovery by theorists of a number of cultural and historical approaches to literature that had been shunned in the 1960s and 1970s. At once a selective history of American criticism in this century and an overview of the tradition of social, historical and cultural criticism, this text aims to bring new light to the critical landscape.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; Minor shelf wear to binding with bumped corners. Light wear & foxing on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn & toned in a mylar cover.
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Very good in very good + jacket. The Critic and Society. Sm 4to. Gray cloth and teal boards, with black spine titles. 220 pages, with Index. Some scattered highlighting and pen marks in Preface and Introduction only, else clean. In dust-jacket (with price intact).
