German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issu

This book examines how the practices of criticism establish a particular domain of knowledge, the truth of literature. As a discussion of the ideology and polit

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Our reading of the poem, Krieger concludes, must be double: we must see the poem as a linear and chronological sequence reflecting real life, and we must read i

In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and appr