Doing Things with Texts

Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory

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by Meyer Howard Abrams,

Edited by Michael Fischer

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published April 1991, 429 pages, paper

ISBN 0393307476

This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central developments in recent criticism, from the New Criticism to the much-debated "Newreading" and "New Historicism."

Two other essays discuss the emergence of the remarkably influential modern view that a work in the fine arts is an autonomous object, and another offers an extraordinary overview of the history of criticism from Plato and Aristotle to Jacques Derrida to Paul de Man.