Comparative Criticism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 17, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780521332019
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: New Criticism, we are told, believed in the text as 'verbal icon': a closed structure of meanings which it was the business of the critic to display in all its subtle articulations, thereby revealing not, perhaps, the author's intentions (these might safely be left out of account) but the living consciousness of the author as manifested in his work.