num_pages: 538
description: An account of the influence of Cleanth Brooks, a literary critic, and a survey of literary criticism in 20th-century America. The book explains how Brooks helped to steer literacy study away from historical and philological scholarhips by emphasizing the text's autonomy.
language: English
title: Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism
titlecomplete: Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism (Minds of the New South)
genres: Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 14
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Warren-Brooks Award
publisher: University of Virginia Press