Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory

by M.H. Abrams

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This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the New Criticism to the much-debated "Newreading" and "New Historicism." Two other essays discuss the emergence of the remarkably influential modern view that a work in the fine arts is an autonomous object, and another offers an extraordinary overview of the history of criticism from Plato and Aristotle to Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0393307476

ISBN13:9780393307474

Release Date:April 1991

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.12 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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