The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 8: From Formalism to Poststructuralism

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 8: From Formalism to Poststructuralism

by RamanSelden (Editor)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07 Nov 2005

ISBN 10: 052131724X
ISBN 13: 9780521317245

Author Bio
Raman Selden was Professor of English at the University of Sunderland.