Description
The Development Of Literary Charters : The Ideological Period ; The Critical Revolution ; The Period Of Normal Criticism ; Historical Change As Crisis In Criticism ; The Obsolesence Of Charters: The Eponymous Critic -- A Preliminary Theory Of Literary Charters -- T.s. Eliot And The Tory Charter: Stage One: Defeat ; Stage Two: Contemptus Mundi ; Stage Three: The Word As World ; Stage Four: The Tradition ; Stage Five: The Sacred Word -- The Age Of The Explicators, 1938-1948 : Close Reading As Normal Criticism: Cleanth Brooks ; Extension Of Influence In The Quarterlies ; Formalism Conquers The Universities ; Eliot's Triumph And The Reaction ; Return To The Past -- The Formalist Men Of Letters: T.s. Eliot As Critic: The Man Behind The Masks ; Allen Tate: The Conservative Critic ; R.p. Blackmur: The Critic Almost Prophetic ; Austin Warren: The Ideal Regionalist ; Yvor Winters: The Critic As Puritan Narcissist ; Kenneth Burke: The Critic As True Believer -- The Age Of The Theorists, 1949-1978 : Rene Wellek: Theorist Of The Aesthetic ; Murray Krieger: The Unrevolutionized Critic ; The Obsolescence Of Formalism -- The Essential Dialectic: Reality Versus Imagination : The Partisan Review As Community Center ; The Intellectual As Avant-garde Critic -- The Intellectual Man Of Letters : Lionel Trilling: Critic Without A Cause ; Howe, Rahn, Kazin ; Edmund Wilson: The Journalist As Man Of Letters. Grant Webster. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
