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The Attack on Literature and Other Essays

Rene Wellek

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/2018
Pages: 210
Subject: Literary Criticism | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78081E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807837078

DESCRIPTION

With the erudition that has distinguished his lifelong study of literary criticism, Wellek considers the trends, theories, and quarrels of recent years. He continues to insist that criticism--whether written by structuralists, phenomenologists, Marxists, or the New Critics--makes judgments and also takes into account "a common humanity that makes all art accessible to us." He also considers the relationship between literature and linguistics and the difficulty of constructing evolutionary models for literary history.

Originally published in 1982.

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