After the New Criticism
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780485112085
Subjects: General; Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: Northrop Frye published his monumental book in 1957, one year after Murray Krieger in The New Apologists for Poetry had summed up the position associated with the New Criticism, explored its theoretical contradictions and dead ends, and predicted-correctly, it turns out-that the New Criticism had done all that it could do for American literary critics (and the teaching of literature in the United States) and that newer movements were waiting in the wings to take its place on center stage.