Grounds of literary criticism / Suresh Raval.
Raval, Suresh.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-242) and index.
Philosophy and the crisis of contemporary literary theory -- The form and function of poetics -- Contingency, value, and literary theory -- Interpretive communities -- On the mode of existence of the literary work -- Defining literature -- Contest of theory and the concept of criticism -- Conversion, change, and tradition.
Criticism.