Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory

Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices It sets out an innovative agenda for approaching literary critique which will open new avenues of research especially with regard to the formation of disciplines and critical method in literary studiesIt deals with the link between modernism and theory as an important object of intellectual history and discusses theory as much more than a transatlantic moment of modernizationIt elaborates on