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Literature (The New Critical Idiom)
Author(s): Peter Widdowson (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: December 10, 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415169143
- ISBN-13: 9780415169141
Book Description
This brilliant guide provides an introductory overview of the history of ‘literature’ as a cultural concept, reflecting on its contemporary nature, place and function, and what the literary might mean for us today.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Recommended to undergraduate and graduate collections of literary theory.”
-Choice, July/August ’99
-Choice, July/August ’99
About the Author
Peter Widdowson is Professor of Literature at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. He edited Re-Reading English, and is the author of books on Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster and contemporary literary theory.