The Current in Criticism

The Current in Criticism is meant to provide the reader witha wide spectrum of current thinking, a sampling of some of the arguments,attitudes, and perspectives, which participate in the swirl of intensespeculative energy that is so characteristic of contemporary theory. Theeditors describe this collection of 14 essays as "a tentative assessment ofwhere we are and where we might be going in literary study, of what is currentin criticism and of where the critical current might be tending."