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Leitch presents a comprehensive history of American literary criticism from the appearance of Marxist criticism in the 1930s to the development of left-leaning positions in the period from the 1960s to the mid 1980s. He sketches the broad historical and intellectual context in which each critical school emerged, and covers all significant groups of the past 55 years. They include feminist criticism, black aesthetics, the Chicago School, the New Critics,...

Dr. Coles shows how the work of writers, artists, and thinkers of the past two centuries can inspire our own reflections on our daily lives. He offers a compelling call to venture outside our own selves and lives and to listen, attentively and with growing humanity, to the way others get through life, and he encourages us to examine our own character, kindness, and complexity by studying the wisdom of authors from Charles Dickens to Flannery O'Connor,...

Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist...

An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the 20th century's foremost literary critics, this volume presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text and understand its meaning. Contributors include Houston Baker, Roland Barthes and Kenneth Burke.

Material selected from Kazin's three memoirs accompany a selection of his critical writings.

This book presents biographical information on H.L. Mencken's life and critical interpretation and discussion of his literary works.