Criticism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...called the Age of Criticism. Such major disciplines as psychology and anthropology, and such ideologies as Christian theology and Marxist dialectic, were found to have valid application to works of literature. Freudian analysis became a tool for...Thinkers, 1938), W. H. Auden (in The Dyers Hand, 1962), and George Steiner (in Language and Silence, 1970). Feminist and multicultural literary criticism also were important forces throughout the second half of the 20th cent. Structuralism...