The failures of criticism. [electronic resource]

"Emended ed. of Writers and their critics."

Bibliography: p. 339-348.

pt. 1. How it strikes a contemporary: ch. 1. From the ancients to the English moderns -- ch. 2. A glance at criticism in America and Germany -- ch. 3. France -- pt. 2. The prospects for a better criticism: ch. 4. Some critical platitudes -- ch. 5. Obscurity and obscurism in literature -- ch. 6. The search for standards and the myth of posterity -- ch. 7. Toward a reconciliation of scholarship, criticism, and literature -- Appendix: What is wrong with American book-reviewing?

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