Doing Things with Texts : Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory

Abrams, M. H., Fisher, Michael

ISBN 10: 0393027139 / ISBN 13: 9780393027136

Published by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1989

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Title: Doing Things with Texts : Essays in ...

Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st.

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Synopsis:

A collection of essays and literary reviews taken from over three decades of the author's work. The essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the new criticism to the much debated newsreading and new historicism.

About the Author:

M. H. Abrams (1912-2015) was Class of 1916 Professor of English, Emeritus at Cornell University. He received the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Prize for The Mirror and the Lamp and the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for Natural Supernaturalism. He is also the author of The Milk of Paradise, A Glossary of Literary Terms, The Correspondent Breeze, and Doing Things with Texts. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Postwar fellowships, the Award in Humanistic Studies from the Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984), the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Society (1987), and the Award for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1990). In 1999 The Mirror and the Lamp was ranked twenty-fifth among the Modern Library's "100 best nonfiction books written in English during the twentieth century." Michael Fischer is vice president for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty and professor of English at Trinity University. He was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of English at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. His research and teaching have focused on English romanticism, the history of ideas about literature and philosophy, and defenses of the humanities.