Literature and Its Theorists: A Personal View of Twentieth-Century Criticism

by Tzvetan Todorov

Book Overview

Part history, part confession, part manifesto, Literature and Its Theorists is Tzvetan Todorov's bold statement of what literature is and what criticism should be, and is the final volume in Todorov's trilogy devoted to the theory and tradition of literary criticism, which also includes Theories of the Symbol, and Symbolism and Interpretation. This book represents the contemporary ideological debate in criticism as an opposition between classical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801495539
• ISBN13: 9780801495533
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher