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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Grebstein, Sheldon Norman. Perspectives in contemporary criticism. New York, Harper & Row [1968] (OCoLC)574210860 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sheldon Norman Grebstein |
| OCLC Number: | 326871 |
| Description: | xvii, 395 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The historical critic: Odysseus' scar / Erich Auerbach -- From The death of tragedy / George Steiner -- The English novel and the three kinds of time / John Henry Raleigh -- Religion, poetry, and the "dilemma" of the modern writer / David Daiches -- Symbolism and fiction / Harry Levin -- 2. The formalist critic: Problems of poetry / Paul Valery -- Literary criticism: poet, poem, reader / Cleanth Brooks -- Telling and showing / Wayne C. Booth -- Composition and fate in the short novel / Howard Nemerov -- The audible reading of poetry / Yvor Winters -- What to say about a poem / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. -- 3. The sociocultural critic: The fate of pleasure / Lionel Trilling -- The visionary individualists / Stephen Spender -- The ideology of modernism / Georg Lukacs -- The fiction of anti-utopia / Irving Howe -- The political theatre reconsidered / Eric Bentley -- 4. The psychological critic: Psychological depths and "Dover Beach" / Norman N. Holland -- Catharsis: second view / Kenneth Burke -- The creative experience in poetry / Herbert Read -- Molière / Georges Poulet -- The novel and America / Leslie A. Fiedler -- 5. The Mythopoeic critic: The myth and ritual approach to Shakespearean tragedy / Herbert Weisinger -- "Myth" and the literary scruple / Francis Fergusson -- The drunken boat: the revolutionary element in romanticism / Northrop Frye -- Homo Faber and poetry / Paul Ginestier -- The quest hero / W.H. Auden. |
| Responsibility: | by American, English, and European literary critics. |
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