Anger and Dismay
Denis Donoghue, 19 July 1984
Literary Education: A Revaluation
by James Gribble.
Cambridge, 182 pp., £16.50, November 1983,0 521 25315 2 Show More
by James Gribble.
Cambridge, 182 pp., £16.50, November 1983,
Reconstructing Literature
edited by Laurence Lerner.
Blackwell, 218 pp., £15, August 1983,0 631 13323 2 Show More
edited by Laurence Lerner.
Blackwell, 218 pp., £15, August 1983,
Counter-Modernism in Current Critical Theory
by Geoffrey Thurley.
Macmillan, 216 pp., £20, October 1983,0 333 33436 1 Show More
by Geoffrey Thurley.
Macmillan, 216 pp., £20, October 1983,
“... theory are tourists: mid-Atlantic figures like Frank Kermode and Tony Tanner, or Francophiles like Stephen Heath and Stephen Bann. Samuel Johnson had moral principles, but nothing like a theory of literature: he didn’t need one. The force of English common sense is that it leaves you free to deal with the things that ... ”
