by Louis Menand
First published 2008
Louis Menand examines the evolution of literary criticism throughout the twentieth century. He begins with the modernist and avant-garde writers who shaped early critical thought, including T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and W.B. Yeats. The analysis moves forward to the New Critics, featuring I.A. Richards, William Empson, Kenneth Burke, and Yvor Winters. Menand then explores how these movements influenced later critics like F.R. Leavis and Lionel Trilling. The book systematically covers major critical movements, genres, and individual figures who defined literary analysis in the modern era. Menand provides readers with a comprehensive guide to understanding how literary criticism developed and transformed during this pivotal century.
Genres: history, literary-criticism, reference, non-fiction, criticism, academic
Vibes: thought-provoking
Tropes: academic
Period: 20th-Century
ebook · Cambridge University Press