The Case For a Humanistic Poetics

by Daniel R. Schwarz

Overview

An attempt to define a humanistic and pluralistic ideology of reading which takes recent theory into account. By the same author as "The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories on the English Novel from James through Hillis Miller", and "Reading Joyce's ‘Ulysses'".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349110728
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Edition description:	1st ed. 1990
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Humanistic formalism - a theoretical defense; the ethics of reading - the case for pluralistic and transactional reading; character and characterization - an inquiry; the narrative of Paul de Man - texts, issues, significance; towards poetics - challenges and contributions.