Modern Literary Criticism and Theory
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Blackwell Pub.
Published: December 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781405176675
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literary History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: "This book provides an account of modern criticism and theory. It provides a historical survey of the various modes of literary criticism developed in the twentieth century. It not only provides the larger historical contexts of modern critical works, but also engages in close readings of some of the major and commonly taught texts offering clear, detailed, and philosophically informed explanations of difficult works."--Jacket.