Literary theory today / edited by M.A. Abbas, Tak-Wai Wong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abbas, M. A. (M. Ackbar)

Wong, Tak-Wai.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--Congresses.

Criticism.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc--Congresses.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Hong Kong] : Hong Kong University Press, 1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contains the papers given at a conference on literary theory held at the University of Hong Kong from March 31 to April 4, 1981. to complement the papers, an edited version of the taped discussions has been included.In the past two decades, literary theory has undergone such rapid change that it is now, for some, practically unrecognizable. Even when familiar issues surface, they appear in all sorts of unfamiliar guises. As the papers published here demonstrate, literary theory today is interdisciplinary and controversial. It draws as much on the insights of linguistics, philosophy,

Contents:

Table of Contents; Acknowledgement; Introduction / M. A. Abbas; Notes on the Obvious / John Ellis; Discussion / John Ellis; Writing on Giorgione / Stephen Bann; Discussion / Stephen Bann; The Authority of Symbols / F. C. T. Moore; Discussion / F. C. T. Moore; Mikhail Bahktin and the Critique of Systematicity / Jonathan Hall; Discussion / Jonathan Hall; Linguistic Analogies / Robert Lord; Discussion / Robert Lord; A New Line a New Mind : Language & the Original World / Wai-lim Yip; Discussion / Wai-lim Yip; The Critic in the Wilderness : On Hartman's Romance with Romanticism / Martin Aske

Discussion / Martin AskeHermeneutics and the Novel / Elinor Shaffer; Discussion / Elinor Shaffer; Speakers and Discussants

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-70482-6

9786612704826

988-220-209-8

OCLC:

709891137