Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism

By Mark Royden Winchell

Book Overview

An account of the influence of Cleanth Brooks, a literary critic, and a survey of literary criticism in 20th-century America. The book explains how Brooks helped to steer literacy study away from historical and philological scholarhips by emphasizing the text's autonomy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081391647X
• ISBN13: 9780813916477
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher