Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as 'New Criticism' - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In this …
Die Studie unterzieht die üblichen literarkritischen Prozeduren einer kritischen Sichtung, die Schwächen literarkritischer Argumentation im Alten Testament sichtbar macht. Mit einem an modernen Literaturtheorien orientierten Textverständnis und einem stilstatistischen Verfahren …
"In 1930, a group of southern intellectuals led by John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren published I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. A stark attack on industrial capitalism and a defiant celebration of southern culture, th…
A study of the Agrarian tradition from the 1920s to the present day. Paul Murphy shows how what began as a radical conservative movement eventually became, alternately, a critique of 20th-century American liberalism, a defence of the Western tradition, and a form of Southern tra…
Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says, "Not all critics are writers--perhaps most of them are not--and some of them are better when they don't try to be." The British critic and poet William Empson (1906-84), one of the most important and influential critics of the …
"Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says, "Not all critics are writers--perhaps most of them are not--and some of them are better when they don't try to be." The British critic and poet William Empson (1906-84), one of the most important and influential critics of the…
Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says, "Not all critics are writers--perhaps most of them are not--and some of them are better when they don't try to be." The British critic and poet William Empson (1906-84), one of the most important and influential critics of the …