The Institution of Criticism

German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores the implications of this crisis from a Marxist persp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hohendahl, Peter Uwe., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press [2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere
  • 2. Art Evaluation and Reportage: The Aesthetic Theory of the Later H Eine
  • 3. The End of an Institution ? The Debate Over the Function of Literary Criticism in the I960s
  • 4. The Task of Contemporary Literary Criticism
  • 5. Promoters, Consumers, and Critics: On the Reception of the Best-Seller
  • 6. Prolegomena to a History of Literary Criticism
  • 7. Critical Theory, Public Sphere, and Culture: Jürgen Habermas and His Critics
  • Index