The Institution of Criticism /

German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores the implications of this crisis from a Marxist persp...

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Main Author: Hohendahl, Peter Uwe
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1982.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Literary criticism and the public sphere
  • Art evaluation and reportage
  • The end of an institution?
  • The task of contemporary literary criticism
  • Promoters, consumers, and critics
  • Prolegomena to a history of literary criticism
  • Critical theory, public sphere, and culture.