A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the PresentThis comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts.
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... concepts, and questions that were to shape the future of literary criticism as it evolved all the way through to our own century. These include the concept of “mimesis” or imitation; the concept of beauty and its connection with truth ...
... concepts, and questions that were to shape the future of literary criticism as it evolved all the way through to our own century. These include the concept of “mimesis” or imitation; the concept of beauty and its connection with truth ...
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... concept of “the master of truth.” The poet becomes the purveyor of truth, which is general, as distinct from myth ... concept of imitation or mimesis into a “concept of authority.” Mimesis designates “the re-enactment, through ritual, of ...
... concept of “the master of truth.” The poet becomes the purveyor of truth, which is general, as distinct from myth ... concept of imitation or mimesis into a “concept of authority.” Mimesis designates “the re-enactment, through ritual, of ...
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... concept of artistic self-reference.” “Early Greek Views of Poets and Poetry,” in CHLC, V.I, 7. 2 See M. I. Finley, “The World of Greece and Rome,” in LWC, 38. 3 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De grammaticis et rhetoribus, ed. Francesco 17 ...
... concept of artistic self-reference.” “Early Greek Views of Poets and Poetry,” in CHLC, V.I, 7. 2 See M. I. Finley, “The World of Greece and Rome,” in LWC, 38. 3 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De grammaticis et rhetoribus, ed. Francesco 17 ...
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... concepts derived from Pythagoras. From Socrates, Plato learned the dialectical method of pursuing truth by a systematic questioning of received ideas and opinions (“dialectic” derives from the Greek dialegomai, “to converse”). As ...
... concepts derived from Pythagoras. From Socrates, Plato learned the dialectical method of pursuing truth by a systematic questioning of received ideas and opinions (“dialectic” derives from the Greek dialegomai, “to converse”). As ...
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... concepts should be examined “in itself,” his definitions of them are politically motivated in that they arbitrarily import into these concepts a reference to the relation between classes in a hierarchically ordered state. In Plato's ...
... concepts should be examined “in itself,” his definitions of them are politically motivated in that they arbitrarily import into these concepts a reference to the relation between classes in a hierarchically ordered state. In Plato's ...
Contents
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From Plato to the Present Part III Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire | 103 |
From Plato to the Present Part IV The Medieval Era | 149 |
From Plato to the Present Part V The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment | 227 |
From Plato to the Present Part VI The Earlier Nineteenth Century and Romanticism | 347 |
From Plato to the Present Part VII The Later Nineteenth Century | 467 |
From Plato to the Present Part VIII The Twentieth Century | 555 |
From Plato to the Present Epilogue | 772 |
From Plato to the Present Selective Bibliography | 777 |
From Plato to the Present Index | 791 |
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A History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the Present M. A. R. Habib No preview available - 2005 |
A History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the Present M. A. R. Habib No preview available - 2008 |
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