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Twentieth Century Literature 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207179 in Books
• Published on: 1972-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 683 pages

Customer Reviews

A Perfect Macth to Lodge's Modern Criticism and Theory
Novelsit David Lodge for students and professors at Academia is particulalry appealing. His fiction is among the very best in the literary postmodernity. His criticism broadens the understanding of his discoursive gift. Limited for space he manages both in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and the - sequel Modern Criticism and Theory, to give a complete unprejudiced picture of the scene of literary theory. These are Readers where he has selected and compiled the most representative texts, a task requiring strong commitment and sound knowledge of the work of hundreds of authors. Yet he finds more space, in the brilliant introductions, in the footnotes, in the bibliography to complete the picture of all schools and trends. Both Readers may be a good start for novices but at the same time they are a must for distinguished scholars as well. And if someone is still looking for the novelist, he is there, adding personal touches of comprehension or lack of it to the difficult texts. Once one starts with Twentieth Century Literary Criticism one will follow up with Modern Criticism and Theory, very much as one cannot but accomplish a complete tour of his wonderful fiction.