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Double Agent: The Critic and Society - Dickstein, Morris
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The author provides a series of closely-linked essays on criticism in the 20th century, emphasizing the shift from journalistic and historical criticism - the "man of letters" tradition - to formal, academic and theoretical criticism. This is a development that comes full circle with the recent rediscovery by theorists of a number of cultural and historical approaches to literature that had been shunned in the 1960s and 1970s. At once a selective history of American criticism in this century and an overview of the tradition ...

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Double Agent: The Critic and Society 1996, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195111378

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Double Agent: The Critic and Society 1992, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195073997

Hardcover