A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative

The American critic William V. Spanos, a pioneer of postmodern theory and co-founder of one of its principal organs, the journal boundary 2, is, in the words of A William V. Spanos Reader coeditor Daniel T. O'Hara, everything that current post-modern theory is accused of not being: polemical, engaged, prophetic, passionate. Informed by his experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Spanos saw dire con-sequences for life in modernist aesthetic experiments, and he thereafter imbued his work with a constructive aspect ever in the name of more life. A William V. Spanos Reader collects Spanos's most important critical essays, providing both an introduction to his prophetic, visionary work and a provocation to the practice of humanistic criticism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081013084X
• ISBN13: 9780810130845
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 728 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"