The Late Nineteenth Century: 1840-1880 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Introduction
Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, American literary critics have become increasingly concerned with what Aristotle termed the art of literature in general as well as its various species. As a result of René Wellek and Austin Warren’s Theory of Literature in 1949, the revival of the Aristotelian tradition encouraged by R. S. Crane’s Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern in 1952, and Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays in 1957, as well as the American discovery of early Russian formalism and modern European...
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