The philosophical and aesthetic foundations of literary theories; Anglo-American new criticism and Russian formalism; Czech structuralism between Kant, Hegel and the avant-garde; problems of reader response criticism - from hermeneutics to phenomenology; from Marxism to critical theory and postmodernism; the aestheticis of semiotics - Greimas, Eco, Barthes; the nietzschean aesthetics of deconstruction; Lyotard's postmodern aesthetics and Kant's notion of the sublime; towards a critical theory of literature.
- ISBN10 0485115409
- ISBN13 9780485115406
- Publish Date 1 October 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 January 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 250
- Language English