Directions for Criticism

by Murray Krieger

Book Overview

This collection of essays in and on recent critical theory and its backgrounds attempts to clarify what is probably one of the most complex situations in the history of literary criticism. The classifier of methodologies can look back only with nostalgia at the simplicity of his problems with the limited warfare among New Critics, biographical and historical scholars, neo-humanists, neo-Aristotelians, and old-style Freudians and Marxists. Much...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299073947
• ISBN13: 9780299073947
• Release Date: October 1977
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.6"