title: The Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory
author: Julian Wolfreys
description: This new single-volume introduction to the history of criticism in the humanities should find a welcome and useful place in most reference collections. More than 100 essays, varying in length from three to ten pages and written by experts in the various fields of criticism, are divided into three main sections. Part 1, "Critical Discourse in Europe" (the most extensive with 54 essays), begins with Descartes and Spinoza and ends with an essay by Nicholas T. Rand on French psychoanalytic literary criticism. Part 2, "Theories and Practice of Criticism in North America," begins with an excellent short essay by Kenneth Womack on Charles Sanders Peirce and semiotics and concludes with an essay by David Alderson on masculinity and cultural studies. Part 3, "Criticism, Literary and Cultural Studies in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales," deals with the history and development of criticism and literary and cultural studies in the United Kingdom from Coleridge to British poststructuralism after 1968. The brevity of the essays generally precludes real in-depth analysis and explication of the various topics covered, but that is not the purpose of this volume, which is to provide an overview of the development of humanities criticism. To this end, it succeeds exceptionally well; editor Wolfreys (English, Univ. of Florida) is to be congratulated. Recommended for all academic and public libraries. Terry Skeats, Bishop's Univ. Lib., Lennoxville, Quebec <BR>Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Unpopular Philosopher on Criticism and Authorities v. 06.19, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 23 April 2018 
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  Criticism and Authorities 
  By an unpopular philosopher 
  
  BLAVATSKY SPEAKS SERIES 
  ON CRITICISM AND AUTHORITIES 
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  First published in: Lucifer, Vol. XI, No 61, September 1892 (posthumously), pp. 9-11. Republished in: 
  Blavatsky Collected Writings, (LITERARY JOTTINGS ON CRITICISM, AUTHORITIES, AND OTHER MATTERS) 
  XIII pp. 243-47. Frontispiece: Escaping Criticism (1874) Pere Borrell Del Caso, Collection of the Bank 
  of Spain. 
  HEOSOPHISTS AND EDITORS OF THEOSOPHICAL PERIODICALS are constant-
  ly warned by the prudent and the faint-hearted, to beware of giving offence to 
  “authorities,” whether scientific or social. Public Opinion, they urge, is the 
  most dangerous of all foes. Criticism of it is fatal, we are told. Criticism can hardly 
  hope to make the pers