The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism

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George Alexander Kennedy
Cambridge University Press, 1989 - Literary Criticism - 565 pages
This volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, first published in 2000, provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats), continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters), and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, Trilling and others who helped form the modern institutions of literary culture. The core period covered is 1910-60, but explicit connections are made with nineteenth-century traditions and there is discussion of the implications of modernism and the New Criticism for our own time, with its inherited formalism, anti-sentimentalism, and astringency of tone. The book provides a companion to the other twentieth-century volumes of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, and offers a systematic and stimulating coverage of the development of the key literary-critical movements, with chapters on groups and genres as well as on individual critics.
 

Contents

THE MODERNISTS
2
T S Eliot
17
Ezra Pound
57
Gertrude Stein
93
Virginia Woolf
122
Wyndham Lewis
138
W B Yeats
151
The Harlem Renaissance
167
Yvor Winters
260
Criticism and the academy
269
The critic and society 19001950
322
The British man of letters and the rise of the professional
377
F R Leavis
389
Lionel Trilling
423
Poetcritics
439
Criticism of fiction
468

The Southern New Critics
200
William Empson
219
R P Blackmur
235
Kenneth Burke
248

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