American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties

Download or read book American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties written by Vincent B. Leitch and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides accounts of thirteen American critical schools and movements of the period from the early 1930s to the mid- 1980s. Each chapter presents a history of a specific school or movement, covering pertinent social and cultural backgrounds, main figures and texts, key philosophical and critical theories and practices and significant relations with allied and antagonistic contemporaneous movements both here and abroad.