Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award

Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism (Minds of the New South)

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Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism (Minds of the New South)

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An account of the influence of Cleanth Brooks, a literary critic, and a survey of literary criticism in 20th-century America. The book explains how Brooks helped to steer literacy study away from historical and philological scholarhips by emphasizing the text's autonomy.

ISBN

9780813916477

Publication Date

1996

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Disciplines

American Literature | Arts and Humanities | Critical and Cultural Studies | Nonfiction | Poetry

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1996 Winner

Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism (Minds of the New South)

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