The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Ser.: Modernism and the New ...

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New CriticismAuthor(s): A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, Lawrence Rainey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521317238, 978-0521317238\nSynopsis\nThis volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, first published in 2000, provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats), continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters), and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, Trilling and others who helped form the modern institutions of literary culture. The core period covered is [tel], but explicit connections are made with nineteenth-century traditions and there is discussion of the implications of modernism and the New Criticism for our own time, with its inherited formalism, anti-sentimen.