Literary Criticism as Anything But Literary Criticism Imagining Each, Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature. By ETHAN GOFFMAN. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America. By ADAM ZACHARY...

Many scholars and intellectuals argue for a radically alternative socio-ecological future in which places are fundamentally important-e.g., Murray Bookchin's social ecology (qtd. in Luke 177-194), David Harvey's urban anti-capitalism, bioregionalism (qtd. in McGinnis). Even proponents of less radical social change suggest that a...

To borrow a line from Yellow Submarine, in What Good Are the Arts? the English literary critic John Carey disappears up his own existence: His brilliant, provocative, wrongheaded book ends up erasing itself in contradiction. Mr. Carey, chief critic for London’s Sunday Times, is far...

To borrow a line from Yellow Submarine, in What Good Are the Arts? the English literary critic John Carey disappears up his own existence: His brilliant, provocative, wrongheaded book ends up erasing itself in contradiction.Mr. Carey, chief critic for London’s Sunday Times, is far...

In the following excerpt, Wellek discusses the critical perspectives of Schelling, Novalis, Wackenroder, and Tieck.

In the following excerpt, Schulte-Sasse traces the development of German Romantic critical theory from its early stage, associated with the social critique of contemporary conditions, to its later stage when the movement's critical potential was diminishing.

In the following essay, Brown offers an overview of the emergence of the various schools of nineteenth-century American literary criticism, most of which were based on the aesthetics of Romanticism and devoted to the development of a national literature.

Essay looks at the different methods of criticism when judging literature.

Discusses feminist, post colonial, structural and post structural criticism of canonical literature. Argues that new criticism leads to new and different appreciation of literature.