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Modernism and the New Criticism

Series The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7

Edited by A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand and Lawrence Rainey

Publication Date 2000

Hardback ISBN-10
0521300126

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521300124

Overview

This volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism 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 1910-1960, 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.

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Modernism and the New Criticism in the Cambridge University Press online
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Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Louis Menand and Lawrence Rainey

The modernists

The New Critics

The critic and the institutions of culture

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