Random Walks: Essays in Elective Criticism

by David Solway

The first section of the book develops Solway's approach to literature, starting from the assumption that genuine criticism requires the intellectual freedom to range at will across the literary landscape rather than restricting one's direction based on what is current, fashionable, or politically correct. Solway argues that advocating a theoretical school - postmodernism, poststructuralism, semiotics, new historicism, Marxist revisionism, or queer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773516794
• ISBN13: 9780773516793
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"