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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 8: From Formalism to Poststructuralism [Hardcover]

Raman Selden (Editor)


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October 27, 1995
Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (the second to be published) deals with the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Semiotics, and Hermeneutics. Also incorporating a reflective chapter by Richard Rorty on Deconstruction, and culminating in accounts of the reader-oriented criticism of critics such as Stanley Fish, this is the first book to engage systematically with the history of the twentieth century's most profound and extensive set of cross-cultural intellectual movements. Cambridge Histories Online

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Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (the second to be published) deals with the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, and Hermeneutics. Also incorporating a reflective chapter by Richard Rorty on Deconstruction, and culminating in accounts of the Reader-oriented criticism of Americans such as Stanley Fish, this is the first book to engage systematically with the history of the twentieth century's most profound and extensive set of cross-cultural intellectual movements.

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Raman Selden was Professor of English at the University of Sunderland.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 550 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 27, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521300134
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521300131
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,204,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
Russian Formalism is a convenient label for a loosely knit group of critics whose signal role for contemporary literary studies can hardly be overestimated. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
schematized aspects, corps parlant, literary structuralism, phenomenological aesthetics, literary semiotics, structural poetics, affective stylistics, phenomenological criticism, reception theorists, speech act theory, depth hermeneutics, literary science, linguistic circle, temps humain, deconstructive criticism, speech act theorists, literary communication, reception theory
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Prague School, Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Tel Quel, Russian Formalists, United States, Roman Jakobson, Writing Degree Zero, New Critics, Subjective Criticism, Elements of Semiology, Edmund Husserl, Postmodern Condition, Roland Barthes, Stanley Fish, Interpretive Conventions, Jacques Derrida, Pursuit of Signs, Constance School, Fredric Jameson, Jonathan Culler, Julia Kristeva, Martin Heidegger, Paul de Man, Rhetoric of Fiction
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