Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A terrible introduction

What "a reader" said, and then some. Lentricchia famously renounced Theory and all its devices in a "Lingua Franca" essay, but the seeds of that repentance were already evident in "After the New Criticism," a case study in ressentiment.The book is interesting (hence 2 stars not 1), not for what it says about Bloom or de Man, but for the fact of its being so widely received as a vade mecum to lit theory. But for heaven's sake, if you want to know what de Man thought, read "The Resistance to Theory" (the essay not the book), or something else BY the man.