The New Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory

by Spurlin, William J.; Fischer, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780815314592
• ISBN10: 0815314590
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Table of Contents

General Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The New Criticism in Contemporary Theory
The Teaching of Poetry	p. 3
Miss Emily and the Bibliographer	p. 7
Pure and Impure Poetry	p. 19
My Credo - The Formalist Critics	p. 45
The New Criticism: Pro and Contra	p. 55
Teaching and Studying Literature at the End of Ideology	p. 75
Who Killed Criticism?	p. 101
"Who Killed Criticism?" in Retrospect	p. 125
Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism	p. 131
Variations on Authority: Some Deconstructive Transformations of the New Criticism	p. 161
M.H. Abrams: Defender of the Faith	p. 185
"Stanley Fish Was My Reader": Cleanth Brooks, the New Criticism, and Reader-Response Theory	p. 211
New Critical and Reader-Oriented Theories of Reading: Shared Views on the Role of the Reader	p. 229
New Criticism and New Black Aesthetic Criticism: Debts and Disagreements	p. 247
Icons in the Canyon: A New Critical Memoir	p. 275
Robert Penn Warren, Paul de Man, and the Fate of Criticism	p. 297
The New Criticism in the New Historicism: The Recent Work of Jerome J. McGann	p. 321
The Course of the Particulars	p. 333
New Lesbian Criticism or New (Lesbian) Criticism? Reading, Canon, Academy, Polis	p. 339
Afterword: An Interview with Cleanth Brooks	p. 365
Annotated Bibliography	p. 385
Notes on Contributors	p. 413
Index	p. 419
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