The Politics of Literary Theory
Author: Philip Goldstein
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780813009766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Philip Goldstein examines in this study the politics of a potpourri of modern criticism - new critical, authorial, reader-oriented phenomenological, structuralist, and poststructuralist. In the process, he contends that Marxist and feminist criticism divide these critical approaches along political lines, each position, whether theoretical or practical, fractured along conservative, liberal, and radical lines.