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Literature in the modern world : critical essays and documents
- Title
- Literature in the modern world : critical essays and documents / edited by Dennis Walder at the Open University.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press in association with Open University, 1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN94 .L494 1990 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 386 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This contribution to English, European, feminist, and "new writing" perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s has been designed to provide students with an understanding of the many theoretical issues involved in the study of modern literary texts.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1920-1990
- Criticism > History > 20th century
- Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
- Crítica literaria > S.XX
- Literatura > S.XX > Historia y crítica
- Criticism
- Literature, Modern
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Literatur
- Literaturtheorie
- Literaturwissenschaft
- Letterkunde
- Literatuurkritiek
- Engels
- Developing countries > Literatures > Western influences
- Developing countries
- Genre/Form
- Literary criticism.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Critiques littéraires.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Questioning the 'Canon' : Marilyn Butler, Frank Kermode, Terry Eagleton, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Edward Said -- Interpretation : Lionel Trilling, E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Stanley Fish, Robert Scholes, Hans Robert Jauss -- Literature and commitment : Virginia Woolf, Jean-Paul Sartre, Theodor Adorno, Italo Calvino -- Form and genre : Seymour Chatman, Umberto Eco, Martin Esslin, John Barrell -- Modernism : Paul Valéry, Gérard Genette, Robert Scholes, Georg Lukács, Raymond Williams -- Englishness : Neville Cardus, E.M. Forster, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Asa Briggs, Viginia Woolf.
- Literary and ideology : Jean-Paul Sartre, Terry Eagleton, Pierre Macherey, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, Roland Barthes -- End of empire : Edward Said, Sara Sulei, Seamus Heaney, John McGrath -- New writings in English : Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, and Ihechukwu Madubuike, Elaine Savory Fido, Wole Soyinka, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin -- Language and gender : Simone de Beauvoir, Cora Kaplan, Hélène Cixous, Toni Morrison -- Literature and history : Laurence Lerner, Hayden White, George Steiner, Joseph Brodsky, Czeslaw Milosz, Walter Benjamin.
- ISBN
- 019871114X
- 9780198711148
- 0198710372
- 9780198710370
- LCCN
- 90041917
- OCLC
- ocm22118180
- 22118180
- SCSB-1911656
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library