Austin Warren

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION * The naming of this book has been more than ordinarily difficult. Even a proper 'short title', 'Theory of Literature and Methodology of Literary Study', would be too cumbersome. Before the nineteenth century one might have managed, for then a full, analytic title...

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION It is gratifying to know that the book is appearing in a third edition in America and in England and that it has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese, Hebrew, and Gujarati in this order. Again the bibliography has been brought...