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Critical Pasts
Philip . Ed(S): Smallwood
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Paperback. Editor(s): Smallwood, Philip. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
This volume assembles new thinking on the theory, practice, and cultural value of the history of literary criticism. Focusing on a theme that has attracted relatively little developed theoretical commentary hitherto, the authors of these essays draw on specialist areas of critical history - and different kinds of problems - to illustrate the paradoxes that attend any attempt to write the history of critical writing. Commentary begins with medieval literary theory, explores the social dimension of restoration criticism, the relations between poetry and criticism, and a test case in eighteenth-century criticism's reception aesthetics. Other essays consider relations between eighteenth-century critical ... Read more
This volume assembles new thinking on the theory, practice, and cultural value of the history of literary criticism. Focusing on a theme that has attracted relatively little developed theoretical commentary hitherto, the authors of these essays draw on specialist areas of critical history - and different kinds of problems - to illustrate the paradoxes that attend any attempt to write the history of critical writing. Commentary begins with medieval literary theory, explores the social dimension of restoration criticism, the relations between poetry and criticism, and a test case in eighteenth-century criticism's reception aesthetics. Other essays consider relations between eighteenth-century critical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Series
Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482171
SKU
V9781611482171
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About Philip . Ed(S): Smallwood
Philip Smallwood is Professor of English at the University of Central England in Birmingham, and the author, most recently, of Reconstructing Criticism: Pope's "Essay on Criticism" and the Logic of Definition (Bucknell University Press, 2003) and Johnson's Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment (Ashgate Publishing, 2004).
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