Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern CriticismDuring a career that spanned sixty years, Cleanth Brooks was involved in most of the major controversies facing the humanities from the 1930s until his death in 1994. He was arguably the most important American literary critic of the mid-twentieth century. Because it is impossible to understand modern literary criticism apart from Cleanth Brooks, or Cleanth Brooks apart from modern literary criticism, Mark Royden Winchell gives us not only an account of one man's influence but also a survey of literary criticism in twentieth-century America. More than any other individual, Brooks helped steer literary study away from historical and philological scholarship by emphasizing the autonomy of the text. He applied the methods of what came to be called the New Criticism, not only to the modernist works for which these methods were created, but to the entire canon of English poetry, from John Donne to William Butler Yeats. In his many critical books, especially The Well Wrought Urn and the textbooks he edited with Robert Penn Warren and others, Brooks taught several generations of students how to read literature without prejudice or preconception. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictFortunately for 20th-century letters, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren kept running into each other: as undergraduates at Vanderbilt, as Rhodes Scholars at Oxford, and as faculty at Louisiana ... Read full review
Contents
The Road to Nashville | 3 |
The Campfire Still Glowing | 19 |
Tinkum | 40 |
A Reb at Oxford | 58 |
Baton Rouge | 77 |
The Left Bank of the Mississippi | 94 |
The Confederacy of Letters | 110 |
An Extended Family | 129 |
The Squire of Northford | 284 |
A Postage Stamp of Soil | 307 |
A Moveable Feast 196485 | 327 |
Albion Revisited | 329 |
The Attack on Tory Formalism | 347 |
A Place to Come To | 368 |
Claiming Criticism | 395 |
Toward Sunset 198594 | 423 |
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| Title | Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism Minds of the new South |
| Author | Mark Royden Winchell |
| Publisher | University of Virginia Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 081391647X, 9780813916477 |
| Length | 510 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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