Literary criticism of the 20th century

Author: Jean-Ives Thadie (France)
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Publish Date: 1998-10-01
Features: This book is a theoretical work that provides a panoramic summary of Western literary criticism in the 20th century. The author, Thadie, is a renowned contemporary French literary critic and a professor at the Sorbonne University in France. He highly summarizes the innovative, summarizing, and erudite characteristics of 20th-century literary criticism, systematically discussing the influential literary criticism schools of the century in order. These schools include: Formalism, Roman Philology, Subject Consciousness Criticism, Object Imagery Criticism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Literary Sociology, Linguistics and Literature, Literary Semiotics, Poetics, and Genealogy Criticism. The author explores the theoretical discussions of each criticism school based on their respective epistemology and artistic perspectives, thereby revealing the charm of literary criticism. As Thadie describes it, literary criticism is like the lighthouse of Alexandria for literary works—it may not create them, but it guides and illuminates them. Although this book is a theoretical work, its language is concise and easy to understand, allowing readers to gain a comprehensive overview of the development of 20th-century literary criticism. At the same time, it serves as an extremely valuable reference for lovers of literary criticism.