"Reaffirming the importance of the texts and artifacts of high culture to the historian, LaCapra singles out the novel for special attention. He treats as well

The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W.K. Wimsatt's assumption is that practi

The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the