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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. "The Institution of Criticism" is a collection of critical essays by Professor Peter Uwe Hohendahl. The book was translated from the German by Henry Schmidt, et al, and concerns the nature and purpose of literary criticism, with especial emphasis on the writers and literature of Germany From the book's Introduction : "The recognition that a literary text is embedded in a historical context that can be defined in cultural, political, and social terms has been common knowledge for some time. This insight, however has not been fully appreciated in the examination of various forms of literary criticism -- scholarly books and articles, journalistic essays, book reviews in newspapers, and the like. Yet studies that deal with literary works in one way or another should also be recognized as literary texts and should be seen against their own background." CONTENTS : ** Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere ** Art Evaluation and Reportage: The Aesthetic Theory of the Later Heine. ** The End of an Institution? The Debate over the Function of Literary Criticism in the 1960s ** The Task of Contemporary Literary Criticism ** Promoters, Consumers, and Critics: On the Reception of the Best-Seller ** Prolegomena to a History of Literary Criticism ** Critical Theory, Public Sphere, and Culture: Jürgen Habermas and his Critics. TITLE : The Institution of Criticism AUTHOR : Peter Uwe Hohendahl TRANSLATORS : Henry J. Schmidt , Ronald Smith et al LANGUAGE : English IMPRINT : Cornell University Press PLACE : Ithaca, New York DATE : 1987 EDITION : Second Printing PROVENANCE : From the personal library of a professor of German Literature (Deceased) DETAILS : Scholarly hardcover; contains an introduction, copious bibliographical etc., notes, and an index; approximately 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; maroon cloth with title, etc. in gold on spine; 287 pages. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, the following noted :: BOARDS : A bit of spotting to rear board, else clean and presentable SPINE : Clean and presentable BINDING : Solid TEXT-BLOCK EDGES : Clean and presentable INTERIOR : Clean and presentable --- the front free end-paper has the signature in pencil of Professor Browning (R. M. Browning) -- Professor Browning was a distinguished Professor of German Literature at Hamilton College, in Clinton N.Y. He was internationally renowned for his contributions to the study of German Literature. I spotted some faint pencil erasures of negligible effect in some of the margins - these and any such marks would have been done by Professor Browning. DUST-JACKET : Not present.