Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland \u0026 Russia, 1700-1800 by S.D. Chrostowska


Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland \u0026 Russia, 1700-1800
Title : Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland \u0026 Russia, 1700-1800
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ISBN : 1442643560
ISBN-10 : 9781442643567
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 288
Publication : First published June 29, 2012

Literature on Trial traces the rise of modern literary criticism in Central and Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century. S.D. Chrostowska juxtaposes the discourse's written forms in three linguistic-cultural regions Germany, Poland, and Russia to show how fluid the relationship once was between the genres of criticism and those of literature.

An alternative history of literary criticism,