Criticism and Social Change

by Frank Lentricchia

Book Overview

"Criticism and Social Change speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia's provocative analysis demands serious reflection by American radicals."-Frederic Jameson "A profound meditation on relations obtaining among writing, political consciousness, and criticism-this last taken in its most general sense. It is written with passion and grace; it is shot through with learning,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226471993
• ISBN13: 9780226471990
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.