The Case For a Humanistic Poetics [Paperback]

An attempt to define a humanistic and pluralistic ideology of reading which takes recent theory into account. By the same author as The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories on the English Novel from James through Hillis Miller , and Reading Joyce's `Ulysses' .Humanistic formalism - a theoretical defense; the ethics of reading - the case for pluralistic and transactional reading; character and characterization - an inquiry; the narrative of Paul de Man - texts, issues, significance; towards poetics - challenges and contributions.