Gary Day

Literary Criticism

A New History

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Produktbeschreibung

Literary Criticism: A History Gary Day 'Day is exuberantly readable... his lightness of touch is heroic in the presence of hugely intractable and diverse material from the past. With these qualities he has constructed a book that will appeal to students and scholars alike.' Philip Smallwood, THE 'Gary Day has made a thought-provoking and highly readable contribution to one of the most difficult categories of critical writing: a history of literary criticism...There is a great treasure trove of curiosities here, economically expressed, which really adds to the great pleasure of reading this book...A book lover's joy.' Daniel Cook, Cambridge Quarterly '[ Literary Criticism is] an insightful, absorbing and provocative account of the development of theories in the West in the last twenty-four centuries.' East West Journal of Humanities A THE Book of the Week Did you know that Aristotle thought the best tragedies were those that ended happily? Or that the first mention of the motor car in literature may have been in 1791 in Boswell's Life of Johnson? Or that it was not unknown in the nineteenth century for book reviews to be 30,000 words long? These are just a few of the fascinating facts to be found in this absorbing history of literary criticism. From the Ancient Greek period to the present day, we learn about critics' lives, the times in which they lived and how the same problems of interpretation and valuation persist through the ages. Gary Day is Principal Lecturer in English at De Montfort University. His previous publications include Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism (1996) and Class (2001).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9780748641420
• ISBN-10: 0748641424
• Artikelnr.: 30886861

Autorenporträt

Gary Day is Principal Lecturer in English at De Montfort University. His previous publications include Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism (1996) and Class (2001). He has contributed to The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism and for a number of years has had a satirical column in the Times Higher Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Polemical Introduction
2. Greek and Roman Criticism
3. Medieval Criticism
4. Renaissance Criticism
5. Restoration and Enlightenment Criticism
6. Romantic and Victorian Criticism
7. Twentieth and Twenty First Century Criticism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index