From Publishers Weekly
From the author of Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy comes this 1936 broadside against literary critics aligned with the orthodox Communist party. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
A Note On Literary Criticism FROM THE PUBLISHER
James T. Farrell's compelling defense of the Marxist principles of literary criticism was hailed by Edmund Wilson as ""a remarkable event"." Now available in its entirety for the first time is more than five decades, A Note On Literary Criticism liberated a section of the Great Depression's radical intelligentsia from vulgar, over politicized approaches to cultural criticism.