Wellek essays (some never-before published); footnotes throughout text; bibliography (of Wellek's works); 2 indices (names; topics + terms); author biography w/b+w photograph; "throughout, the documentation is massive, the breadth of intelligence masterful. Indeed, several of these articles have already become central documents, established points of reference + recourse, for t...(展开全部)

14 essays cover literary theory, criticism, and history, concepts of form and structure, the Baroque, Romanticism, realism, positivism, comparative literature, and American and twentieth-century criticism.

Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient ti...(展开全部)

Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient ti...(展开全部)

马修·阿诺德(Matthew Arnold)（1822年--1888年）英国近代诗人、教育家，文学批评家。他任牛津大学诗学教授长达十年。诗歌灵感得之于古希腊作家，歌德，华兹华斯，写过大量文学，教育，社会问题的随笔，猛烈抨击英国生活和文化方面的地方主义，庸俗风气，功利主义，成为当时知识界的批评之声，影响了托·斯·艾略特，利维斯等一代文人。1849年，他发表第一部诗集《迷途浪子》(The Strayed Reveller)。他只能利用工作之余的闲暇进行文学创作，但即便是业余之作却已使他得以跻身于维多利亚时代主要作家的行列。其诗歌和评论对时弊很敏感，并能做出理性的评判。阿诺德的诗歌创作主要集中在1850年代，1860年后主要从事散文写作，写下了大量的文学评论和社会评论作品。阿诺德的诗作主要收集在《诗集》(Poems, 1853)、《诗歌二集》(Poems:...(展开全部)

"Tropics of Discourse" develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary...(展开全部)

A sociological history of literary studies—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of “English” have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new b...(展开全部)

A sociological history of literary studies—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of “English” have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new b...(展开全部)