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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524863503321

Autore

Krieger Murray <1923-2000., >

Titolo

The Institution of Theory / Murray Krieger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

1-4214-3122-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 103 pages))

Disciplina

801/.95

Soggetti

Literaturtheorie

Literaturkritik

Literatuurwetenschap

Criticism

Project Muse

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A revised, expanded version of the lectures delivered at the Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Originally published in 1994

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-99) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Institutionalizing Theory: From Literary Criticism to Literary Theory to Critical Theory -- 2. Two Faces of an Old Argument: History versus Formalism in American Criticism -- 3. The Ideological Imperative and Counterideological Resistance -- 4. A Hortatory Conclusion.