The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals) by Fekete, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Foreword by Raymond Williams Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations PART I General Introduction Structures and Genesis

1 Nineteeth-Century Problematics

A Romantics B Post-romantics

2 Foundations of Modern Critical Theory

A Introduction: Hulme, Richards and Eliot B T. S. Eliot C I. A. Richards

3 Paradigm in Motion

PART II John Crowe Ransom The Critical Theory of Defensive Reaction

4 Introduction to John Crowe Ransom 5 Fugitive and Post-Fugitive 6 Agrarianism

A General Metaphysics: God Without Thunder B Economics: I’ll Take My Stand C Poetics: The World’s Body

i Philosophy of art against philosophy of science ii Poetry as a form of knowledge iii Mimesis, memory, and form iv Sentiment

7 New Criticism

A The Rise of New Criticism B The Novelty of New Criticism C Ontological Criticism: The New Criticism

8 Conclusion to Ransom

PART III Northrop Frye The Critical Theory of Capitulation

9 Mythological Structuralism

A Introduction B The Critical Universe C The Poetic Universe D The Verbal Universe E Conclusion

PART IV Marshall McLuhan The Critical Theory of Counterrevolution

10 Introduction to McLuhan 11 Three Phases of Development

A McLuhan in the Tradition B Phase One: 1936–51 C Phase Two: 1952–8 D Phase Three: 1959–

12 Technocratic Ideology of One-Dimensionality

A Technological Fetishism B Cybernetic Reification: Idealist Materialism C Stabilized History: the Apocalypse of Global Stasis D Mind and Art: the Control Tower

13 Conclusion to McLuhan

A Secular Religion B Appeal and Significance

PART V General Conclusion Struggle

14 Politics of Cultural Ideology

A Problematic of Positivity B Problematic of Supersession

Appendices

Notes Selected Bibliography Index