The Philosophy of Modern Literary TheoryA remarkable, systematic reconstruction of the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of the major literary theories, from Anglo-American New Criticism to Deconstruction and Postmodernism. The book ranges across not just the philosophical underpinnings of English Literature but also the critical literatures of Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Italy and North America. For the first time, the major schools of literary theory are set within their philosophical context. The book is likely to become the standard introduction to the study of literary theory. |
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... idea that a literary text ist a meaningful totality , which is shared by the rationalist semiotician Algirdas J. Greimas and the Hegelian Marxist Lucien Goldmann , loses some of its plausibility as soon as we realise that all of the ...
... idea that a literary text ist a meaningful totality , which is shared by the rationalist semiotician Algirdas J. Greimas and the Hegelian Marxist Lucien Goldmann , loses some of its plausibility as soon as we realise that all of the ...
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... idea that art appeals to us without concepts . In a particularly interesting comment , Ewa Thompson reveals the Kantian implications of another key concept of Formalist theory which can also be considered as an aspect of innovation : de ...
... idea that art appeals to us without concepts . In a particularly interesting comment , Ewa Thompson reveals the Kantian implications of another key concept of Formalist theory which can also be considered as an aspect of innovation : de ...
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... idea that history , far from being a process of emancipation from class domination , is a fatal progression towards catastrophe ; the complementary idea that a critical theory of society should not become involved in the ongoing class ...
... idea that history , far from being a process of emancipation from class domination , is a fatal progression towards catastrophe ; the complementary idea that a critical theory of society should not become involved in the ongoing class ...
Contents
THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND AESTHETIC | 1 |
From Romanticism and Young Hegelianism to Nietzsche | 9 |
ANGLOAMERICAN NEW CRITICISM | 17 |
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