American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s 2nd Edition by Vincent B. Leitch (PDF)

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American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s fully updates Vincent B. Leitch’s classic book, American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s following the development of the American academy right up to the present day.Updated throughout and with a brand new chapter, this second edition:provides a critical history of American literary theory and practice, discussing the impact of major schools and movements examines the social and cultural background to literary research, considering the role of key theories and practices provides profiles of major figures and influential texts, outlining the connections among theorists presents a new chapter on developments since the 1980s, including discussions of feminist, queer, postcolonial and ethnic criticism. Comprehensive and engaging, this book offers a crucial overview of the development of literary studies in American universities, and a springboard to further research for all those interested in the development and study of Literature.

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⭐The general reader who wants to follow-up Terry Eagleton’s “Literary Theory” with something more substantial could do worse than read this book. Notwithstanding the title, it covers the same ground as Eagleton, since until relatively recently America imported its theory from Europe. Professor Leitch has a gift for succinctly explaining the philosophical underpinnings of critical stances – his explanation of Husserlian phenomenology is particularly clear and helpful. My review was heading for five stars until the final chapters which degenerated into lists of critics currently putting pen to paper. This is perhaps forgivable since a consensus has failed to form around who really matters. Also, in the earlier chapters Leitch overdoes things by referring to critical movements in capital letters so that I began to feel I was reading a history of an alternative rock scene, with the New Critics, the Chicago Aristotelians, the Yale Deconstructors, the Lacanian Psychological Critics, and so on. I have heard of the first three but did a group of grown adults really go about referring to themselves as “The New York Intellectuals”? Stanley Fish (Reader-Response Critic) is quoted on the blurb as saying this book would be extremely helpful to students and teachers of the subject. I would hope that teachers would already know all this stuff, but I heartily recommend the book to students and others who want a more detailed and even-handed approach than that afforded by Terry Eagleton.

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