Author: Kramer, Victor A., editor:
Title: American Critics at Work: Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories
Description: Troy (New York), Whitston Publishing, 1984. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii, 447 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contains 17 papers. Includes: Murray Krieger "Literature vs. Ecriture: Constructions & Deconstructions in Recent Critical Theory"; Nathan A. Scott, Jr. "Santayana's Poetics of Belief"; Gerald Graff "Literature as Assertions"; Vincent B. Leitch "The Book of Deconstructive Criticism"; Joseph Riddel "H.D.'s Scene of Writing-Poetry as (and) Analysis"; William V. Spanos "Retrieving Heidegger's De-Struction"; J. Hillis Miller " Theology & Logology in Victorian Literature"; Norman N. Holland " Transacting My 'Good-Morrow' or, Bring Back the Vanished Critic"; Devid Bleich "Negotiated Knowledge of Language & Literature"; Michael Steig " Motives for Interpretation: Intention, Response & Psychoanlaysis in Literary Criticism"; Charlæes Altieri "Criticism as the Situating of Performances: Or What Wallace Stevens Has to Tell Us About Othello"; Steven Mailloux "Learning to Read: Interpretation & Reader-Response Criticism"; Hershel Parker "Cheap Thrills: Lost 'Authority' and Adventitious Aesthetic Frissons"; Michael Sprinker "Reinventing Historicism: An Introduction to the Work of Fredric Jameson"; Matei Calinescu "Imagination & Meaning: Aesthetic Attitudes in Mircea Eliade's Thought"; Giles Gunn "The Semiotics of Culture & the Interpretation of Literature: Clifford Geertz and the Moral Imagination"; Ihab Hassan " Parabiography: The Varieties of Critical Experience".

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