9780801418167 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $44.95 |
About this edition: A fascinating and provocative 'adventure of the mind', which traces the history of literary critical development from Russian Formalism to Post-Structuralism, via writers such as Brecht, Sartre, Barthes, Bakhtin, Frye and Benichou.
9780801495533 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, March 1, 1989), cover price $32.95 |
About this edition: Part history, part confession, part manifesto, Literature and Its Theorists is Tzvetan Todorov's bold statement of what literature is and what criticism should be, and is the final volume in Todorov's trilogy devoted to the theory and tradition of literary criticism, which also includes Theories of the Symbol, and Symbolism and Interpretation.