Literature, Theory, and Common Sense

by Antoine Compagnon

An engaging introduction to contemporary debates in literary theory

In the late twentieth century, the common sense approach to literature was deemed na ve. Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author, and Hillis Miller declared that all interpretation is theoretical. In many a literature department, graduate students spent far more time on Derrida and Foucault than on Shakespeare and Milton. Despite this, common sense approaches...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691070423
• ISBN13: 9780691070421
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.6"