Doing things with texts essays in criticism and critical theory /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015
Other Authors: Fischer, Michael, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, [1989]
Edition:1st ed.
Physical Description:
xiii, 429 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Criticism.
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Contents:
  • Types and orientations of critical theories
  • What's the use of theorizing about the arts?
  • A note on Wittgenstein and literary criticism
  • Belief and the suspension of disbelief
  • Rationality and imagination in cultural history
  • Art-as-such: The sociology of modern aesthetics
  • From Addison to Kant: Modern aesthetics and the exemplary art
  • Five types of Lycidas
  • Postscript to "Five types of Lycidas"
  • Positivism and the newer criticism
  • Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism
  • The deconstructive angel
  • Behaviorism and deconstruction
  • How to do things with texts
  • Construing and Deconstructing
  • A colloquy on recent critical theories
  • On political readings of Lyrical Ballads.

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