Synopses & Reviews
This volume 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. 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, genres, and individual critics.
Review
"This new collection of essays from Cambridge University Press is of great value to all scholars concerned with the relations between religion and modern thought." The Journal of Religion"A valauble book" Modernism/Modernity
Review
"This new collection of essays from Cambridge University Press is of great value to all scholars concerned with the relations between religion and modern thought." The Journal of Religion"A valauble book" Modernism/Modernity
Synopsis
Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats figure in this comprehensive treatment of modernism and the New Criticism.
Synopsis
This volume provides a thorough account of the modern critical tradition from the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century, to New Criticism and beyond. The book offers a systematic and stimulating overview of the development of the key literary-critical movements, with a comprehensive bibliography.
Synopsis
A comprehensive overview of the modern critical tradition in the early twentieth century.