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Description edit
This volume offers a comprehensive account of modern literary criticism, presenting the field as part of an ongoing historical and intellectual tradition. Featuring thirty-nine specially commissioned chapters from an international team of esteemed contributors, it fills a large gap in the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jacques Derrida: Add a description of this character.
- Sigmund Freud
- F.R. Leavis
- William Empson
- I.A. Richards
- T.S. Eliot
- Virginia Woolf
- Roland Barthes
- Jacques Lacan
- Walter Benjamin
- Arthur Miller
- William Wordsworth
- Simone de Beauvoir
- John Donne
- James Joyce
- John Milton
- Harold Bloom
- Paul De Man
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Salman Rushdie
- George Eliot
First Sentence edit
In 1936, the comparativist scholar-critic Rene Wellek called for a sustained and systematic effort to clarify the basic theoretical problems underpinning the relatively new, but expanding, academic profession of criticism.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Patricia Waugh (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 801.9509
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