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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES Vol. I, No. 4, 1964 | ''COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES'' Vol. I, No. 4, 1964 | ||
Beyond a Theory of Literature: Intimations of Apocalypse? | |||
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BEGIN WITH AN ASSUMPTION: that literature defines our concepts of criticism or else it defies them, and that life constantly challenges the pieties of both art and thought. What I shall attempt here, then, could not be considered an authoritative review of postwar criticism. It should be understood, rather, as a partial statement on the gathering mood of American criticism, an intimation of a trend which the facts of literary history in the past two decades (colored inevitably by my own sense of fact) may help to clarify. | BEGIN WITH AN ASSUMPTION: that literature defines our concepts of criticism or else it defies them, and that life constantly challenges the pieties of both art and thought. What I shall attempt here, then, could not be considered an authoritative review of postwar criticism. It should be understood, rather, as a partial statement on the gathering mood of American criticism, an intimation of a trend which the facts of literary history in the past two decades (colored inevitably by my own sense of fact) may help to clarify. | ||