history and criticism

An analytical survey of European critical theory from Aristotle to Empson.

This program includes 160 fully updated and revised versions of the print series and features over 200 literary guides, critical commentary and character analysis, interactive essay builder, an easy-to-use study guide, a comprehensive search feature and an online link to more classic literature resources. Also features narrations, period music, author photos and more.

Like the original volume, which was compiled and edited by Michael Popkin, this book explores, in extensive excerpts of criticism, important black noelists, poets, and dramatists of the 20th century, from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean.

This book is an outstanding contribution to the field of historical sociology and the sociology of knowledge. ... In three hundred well-written and carefully documented pages the author has set the 'rise of the novel' as a new literary genre in the social context of eighteenth-century England, with emphasis on the predominent middle-class features of the period.

A stunning compendium of writing on some of the most intriguing writers the modern world has produced.