This enduring anthology is the only one to encompass the historic sweep of literary criticism — from Plato to the present — in a compact and affordable format.
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CHARLES KAPLAN (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he was the founding chairman of the English department in 1956. He has been a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, and has served on the original board of the California Council for the Humanities. Among his publications are Guided Composition, Critical Approaches to the Short Story, The Overwrought Urn, and Literature in America: The Modern Age. Since his retirement, Kaplan has been a reader for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic.
WILLIAM DAVIS ANDERSON (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is a professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he has served as director of graduate studies, teacher preparation adviser, and chair of the department. His teaching, for which he has received a CSUN Distinguished Teaching Award, encompasses graduate courses in English Romanticism as well as undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in literary theory and criticism. He joined Charles Kaplan as coeditor for the third and fourth editions of Criticism: Major Statements. Of his other critical writings, Professor Anderson's favorite is his "Time and Memory in Nabokov's Lolita," published in The Centennial Review.
WILLIAM DAVIS ANDERSON (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is a professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he has served as director of graduate studies, teacher preparation adviser, and chair of the department. His teaching, for which he has received a CSUN Distinguished Teaching Award, encompasses graduate courses in English Romanticism as well as undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in literary theory and criticism. He joined Charles Kaplan as coeditor for the third and fourth editions of Criticism: Major Statements. Of his other critical writings, Professor Anderson's favorite is his "Time and Memory in Nabokov's Lolita," published in The Centennial Review.
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I am currently using this book as text in one of my undergraduate college courses (Literary Criticism).Excellent selected essays, with great abstracts/introductions at the beginning of each. They give historical background, both about the author and the school from which the author comes, often a introduction to the terminology used, and a concise summary of the author's argument.
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I bought this book and used it as a textbook a few years ago for my Literary Criticism class in college. I have really enjoyed reading it. The book is well pieced together; the individual articles/essays are well written and concise, for the most part. Even if you are not planning on using it for school purposes it is a good book for those wishing to have a better understanding of literature. I have used it several times as a reference since graduation and occasional will read one of the essays just for fun. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because there are a few articles that are not to my liking, a little too wordy with not much substance. However, that is not the norm for the book as a whole. Overall, if you need it for a class, or are a literature buff, it's a good buy.
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