Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Release : 1989
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 8, From Formalism to Poststructuralism by : George Alexander Kennedy
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 8, From Formalism to Poststructuralism written by George Alexander Kennedy. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism deals with the most influential and hotly debated areas of literary theory: those developing in Europe but having their main impact in the Anglo-American world of academic literary studies, whose course they have fundamentally redirected. The structuralism, poststructuralism, Russian formalism, semiotics, narratology, hermeneutics, phenomenology, reception theory, and speech act theory associated with European writers including Barthes, Todorov, Derrida, and Iser, are here described in the context of their original development, but with an eye also to their eventual influence; and the volume includes a reflective chapter by Richard Rorty on deconstruction. Incorporating full bibliographies, this volume engages systematically with the history of the twentieth century's most profound and extensive set of cross-cultural intellectual movements.
