Download or read book The Politics of Literary Theory written by Philip Goldstein and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 1990 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Goldstein examines in this study the politics of a potpourri of modern criticism - new critical, authorial, reader-oriented phenomenological, structuralist, and poststructuralist. In the process, he contends that Marxist and feminist criticism divide these critical approaches along political lines, each position, whether theoretical or practical, fractured along conservative, liberal, and radical lines.