ABSTRACT
First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory. It interrogates, comprehensively and in detail, the assumptions and categorical development within critical ideas from I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot, through John Crowe Ransom and the New Criticism, to Northrop Frye and Marshall NcLuhan. This analysis reveals the Anglo-American tradition of literary-cultural theory is most properly intelligible within the overall field of social consciousness as an ideology of progressive cultural rationalization. Against a background of ideological development since nineteenth-century Romanticism, John Fekete illuminates the boundaries of literary ideology in relation to the shapes and changes of modern culture and society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |39 pages
General Introduction
chapter |14 pages
Nineteenth-Century Problematics 1
chapter |20 pages
Foundations of Modern Critical Theory
chapter |3 pages
Paradigm in Motion
part |63 pages
John Crowe Ransom
chapter |9 pages
Introduction to John Crowe Ransom
chapter |9 pages
Fugitive and Post-Fugitive
chapter |24 pages
Agrarianism
chapter |14 pages
New Criticism
chapter |5 pages
Conclusion to Ransom
part |27 pages
Northrop Frye
chapter |25 pages
Mythological Structuralism
part |57 pages
Marshall McLuhan
chapter |11 pages
Introduction to McLuhan
chapter |16 pages
Three Phases of Development
chapter |18 pages
Technocratic Ideology of One-Dimensionality
part |10 pages
Conclusion to McLuhan
part |15 pages
General Conclusion