The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture

by Giles B. Gunn and Giles Gunn

Book Overview

Giles Gunn's important new work is at once a provocative defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgement that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory. Including detailed discussions of such thinkers as Kenneth Burke, Clifford Geertz, Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Rorty, Trilling,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195056426
• ISBN13: 9780195056426
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"