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English studies have become the scene of the intense controversy with Marxism, feminism, deconstruction and the many varieties of structuralism all claiming to offer new insights into literature. In this book eight critics (John Holloway, Gabriel Josipovici, Cedric Watts, Wayne Booth, Robert Pattison, Anthony Thorlby, Roger Scruton, and Laurence Lerner) respond to the new movements, united by a refusal to abandon their trust in reason, the possibility of meaning and the need for value judgments. The result is a lively and humane book which offers new insights into literary theory and into particular works. The contributors, while taking the new schools of criticism seriously, often disagree with them, offering serious discussion on the value of structuralism and the merits of many of its practitioners.
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Basil Blackwell, Great Britain, 1983
ISBN 10: 063114269X
ISBN 13: 9780631142690
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Literary criticismhas recently become the scene of intense controversy. Marxism, feminism, hermeneutics, deconstruction and the many varieties of structuralism all claim to offer us new insights into literature, and fierce denunciations of older schools abound. In this book eight distinguished critics - Wayne Booth, John Holloway, Gabriel Josipovici, Laurence Lerner, Robert Pattison, Roger Scrutton, Anthony Thorlby and Cedric Watts - respond to the present situation. All are interested in the new movements, though they differ in their application of critical methods and in their evaluative conclusions. From this basis the ideas of prominent figures, particularly Barthes and Genette, are re-examined; specific essays discuss the use of modern critical techniques in texts by Sophocles, Proust, Trollope and Kafka. The result is a live, humane book which offers insights into both literary theory and particular works. Its constant concern is to offer serious discussion and to avoid polarized simplifications. 218 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Seller Inventory # 087905
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