The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism

Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (the second to be published) deals with the most hotly debated areas of literary theory including Structuralism Poststructuralism Semiotics and Hermeneutics. Also incorporating a reflective chapter by Richard Rorty on Deconstruction and culminating in accounts of the reader-oriented criticism of critics such as Stanley Fish this is the first book to engage systematically with the history of the twentieth century''s most profound and extensive set of cross-cultural intellectual movements.