Modern British and Irish criticism and theory
Subtitle: a critical guide
By: edited by Julian Wolfreys
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780748626809
Subjects: Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM
Description: A guide to the development of literary theory in Britain and Ireland, this book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, as well as academics working in the field. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, it contains essays that address the rise and significance of poetics, and literary and cultural studies. Each essay includes a further reading list.
Notes: "First published as part of The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory in 2002"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preface; 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772℗ł1834) and Matthew Arnold (1822℗ł1888); 2. John Ruskin (1819℗ł1900) and Walter Pater (1839℗ł1894): Aesthetics and the State; 3. Oscar Wilde (1854℗ł1900): Aesthetics and Criticism; 4. The Cambridge School: Sir ArthurQuiller- Couch (1863℗ł1944), I. A. Richards (1893℗ł 1979) and William Empson (1906℗ł1984); 5. James Joyce (1882℗ł1941): Theories of Literature; 6. Virginia Woolf (1882℗ł1941): Aesthetics; 7. T. S. Eliot (1888℗ł1965); 8. After the C  ambridge School': F. R. Leavis (1895℗ł1978), Scrutiny (1932℗ł1952) and Literary Studies in Britain