This volume provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century , continuing with the New Critics , 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.
Language
English
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Release
August 15, 2000
ISBN
0521300126
ISBN 13
9780521300124
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Modernism and the New Criticism
This volume provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century , continuing with the New Critics , 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.