Literature

Literary Theory

Heroic Tropes: Gender and Intertext

Pierrette Daly

In both traditional and revisionist readings of autobiographical works, Daly demonstrates the gender bases and biases from which the esthetics and ethics of critical discourse originate.

Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry

Edited by James McCorkle

Essays by fifty-two contemporary poets discuss issues of poetics, the power and spirit of language, gender, politics, the enactment of reading, and the role of the poet.

Romanticism: Points of View

Second Edition

Edited by Robert F. Gleckner and Gerald E. Enscoe

A useful collection of major essays on the nature and value of Romanticism.

Mythopoesis: Mythic Patterns in the Literary Classics

Harry Slochower

An ambitious study of myth patterns in literature that combines anthropological, psychoanalytic, and literary critical perspectives.

Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden

Edited by Allan H. Gilbert

An anthology of literary criticism from Plato’s time to the year 1700.

Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

Edited by Gay Wilson Allen and Harry Hayden

Complete documents and selections from thirty-nine critics, some in translations made especially for this volume.