The philosophy of modern literary theory
Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Mainland Spain
- Publisher BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
- ISBN13 9780826478931
- ISBN10 082647893X
- Type Book
Sections
Literary TheoryThe philosophy of modern literary theory
Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Mainland Spain
Book Details
The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory presents a short introduction to the problems, theories and concepts of literary criticism, from the Anglo-American New Criticism to Deconstruction to Postmodernism. The book argues that modern theories can only be properly understood when placed in the philosophical and aesthetic context in which they originated and evolved.
The book ranges across not just the philosophical underpinnings of English Literature but also the critical literatures of Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Italy and North America. For the first time, the major schools of literary theory - from Marxism to psychoanalysis to Critical Theory - are set within their philosophical context.