ABSTRACT

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. It is a companion volume to Modern Criticism and Theory (Longman 1988), also edited by David Lodge, which anthologises contemporary criticism as it has developed through structuralism and post-structuralist theory. Together these volumes provide the most comprehensive survey available of traditional and radical literary theory in action.

The critics collected together in this volume have been drawn from England, America and Europe, and each essay has been prefaced by an editor's introduction which suggests the historical and methodological significance of the piece and gives bibliographical and biographical information.

This writers collected are:
M. H. Abrams, W. B. Yeats, Sigmund Freud,Henry James, Ezra Pound, T. S Eliot, Virginia Woolf, T.E. Hulme, I. A. Richards, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, William Empson, G. Wilson Hight, C. G. Jung, Maud Bodkin, Christopher Caudwell, L. C. Knights, John Crowe Ransom, Edmund Wilson, Paul Valéry, D. W. Harding, Lionel Trilling, Cleanth Brooks, Yvor Wiinters, Erich Auerbach, W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley, George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mark Schorer, Francis Fergusson, Northrop Frye, C. S. Lewis, Leslie Fielder, Alain Robbe-Grillet, George Lukács, Richard Hoggart, Walter J. Ong, Norman O. Brown, Ian Watt, Claude Lévi-Strauss, René Welleck, Wayne Booth, Raymond Williams, R. S. Crane, Marshall McLuhan, George Steiner, Susan Sontag, W. H. Auden, Frank Kermode.

chapter 1|26 pages

M. H. Abrams

chapter 2|8 pages

W. B. Yeats

chapter 3|8 pages

Sigmund Freud

chapter 4|14 pages

Henry James

chapter 5|12 pages

Ezra Pound

chapter 6|16 pages

T. S. Eliot

chapter 7|7 pages

Virginia Woolf

chapter 8|13 pages

T. E. Hulme

chapter 9|16 pages

I. A. Richards

chapter 10|15 pages

D. H. Lawrence

chapter 11|10 pages

E. M. Forster

chapter 12|12 pages

William Empson

chapter 13|16 pages

G. Wilson Knight

chapter 14|15 pages

C. G. jung

chapter 15|13 pages

Maud Bodkin

chapter 16|9 pages

Christopher Caudwell

chapter 17|16 pages

L. C. Knights

chapter 18|13 pages

John Crowe Ransom

chapter 19|13 pages

Edmund Wilson

chapter 20|9 pages

Paul Valéry

chapter 21|13 pages

D. W. Harding

chapter 22|16 pages

Lionel Trilling

chapter 23|14 pages

Cleanth Brooks

chapter 24|10 pages

Yvor Winters

chapter 25|18 pages

Erich Auerbach

chapter 26|26 pages

W. K. Wimsatt Jnr and Monroe C. Beardsley

chapter 27|11 pages

George Orwell

chapter 28|16 pages

Jean-Paul Sartre

chapter 29|15 pages

Mark Schorer

chapter 30|20 pages

Francis Fergusson

chapter 31|21 pages

Northrop Frye

chapter 32|12 pages

C. S. Lewis

chapter 33|12 pages

Leslie Fiedler

chapter 34|7 pages

Alain Robbe-Grillet

chapter 35|15 pages

Georg Lukács

chapter 36|9 pages

Richard Hoggart

chapter 37|12 pages

Walter J. Ong

chapter 38|18 pages

Norman O. Brown

chapter 39|18 pages

Ian Watt

chapter 40|6 pages

Claude Lévi-Strauss

chapter 41|13 pages

René Wellek

chapter 42|16 pages

Wayne Booth

chapter 43|12 pages

Raymond Williams

chapter 44|18 pages

R. S. Crane

chapter 45|11 pages

Marshall McLuhan

chapter 46|15 pages

George Steiner

chapter 47|10 pages

W. H. Auden

chapter 48|6 pages

Roland Barthes

chapter 49|9 pages

Susan Sontag

chapter 50|14 pages

Frank Kermode