The Current in Criticism
Essays on Present and Future Literary Theory
Published on 30. September 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
371 pages
978-0-911198-92-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Current in Criticism is meant to provide the reader witha wide spectrum of current thinking, a sampling of some of the arguments,attitudes, and perspectives, which participate in the swirl of intensespeculative energy that is so characteristic of contemporary theory. Theeditors describe this collection of 14 essays as "a tentative assessment ofwhere we are and where we might be going in literary study, of what is currentin criticism and of where the critical current might be tending."
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Language
English
Place of publication
West Lafayette
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-911198-92-8 (9780911198928)
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Clayton Koelb is an associate professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Chicago. Koelb is the author of Thomas Mann's "Goethe and Tolstoy": Notes and Sources and The Incredulous Reader: Literature and the Function of Disbelief. He has also published many articles and reviews in journals such as Comparative Literature, Genre, Monatshefte, German Quarterly, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Germanic Review, Modern Language Studies, and PMLA, to name a few. Virgil L. Lokke is professor emeritus of English at Purdue University. On Fulbright appointments, he has taught at major universities in Norway and Finland, where he received awards for excellence in teaching.