The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New CriticismThis volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, first published in 2000, provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats), continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters), and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, Trilling and others who helped form the modern institutions of literary culture. The core period covered is 1910-60, but explicit connections are made with nineteenth-century traditions and there is discussion of the implications of modernism and the New Criticism for our own time, with its inherited formalism, anti-sentimentalism, and astringency of tone. The book provides a companion to the other twentieth-century volumes of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, and offers a systematic and stimulating coverage of the development of the key literary-critical movements, with chapters on groups and genres as well as on individual critics. |
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Contents
THE MODERNISTS | 2 |
T S Eliot | 17 |
Ezra Pound | 57 |
Gertrude Stein | 93 |
Virginia Woolf | 122 |
Wyndham Lewis | 138 |
W B Yeats | 151 |
The Harlem Renaissance | 167 |
Yvor Winters | 260 |
Criticism and the academy | 269 |
The critic and society 19001950 | 322 |
The British man of letters and the rise of the professional | 377 |
F R Leavis | 389 |
Lionel Trilling | 423 |
Poetcritics | 439 |
Criticism of fiction | 468 |
The Southern New Critics | 200 |
William Empson | 219 |
R P Blackmur | 235 |
Kenneth Burke | 248 |
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 1, Classical Criticism George Alexander Kennedy No preview available - 1990 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism Cambridge histories online Cambridge history ebook collection Issue 7 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, George Alexander Kennedy Volume 7 of “The” Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Modernism and the New Criticism / Ed. by A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey, Hugh Barr Nisbet |
| Editor | George Alexander Kennedy |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0521300126, 9780521300124 |
| Length | 565 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General |
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