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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... context of the main currents of Western thought. This means, for example, not just examining what Plato and Kant say about poetry or aesthetics but situating their aesthetic views within the framework of their philosophical systems ...
... context of the main currents of Western thought. This means, for example, not just examining what Plato and Kant say about poetry or aesthetics but situating their aesthetic views within the framework of their philosophical systems ...
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... context, to view it from a perspective that might evince its connections and lines of origin, descent, and reaction. Secondly, given that this book proceeds by way of close textual analysis, it is necessarily selective, focusing on the ...
... context, to view it from a perspective that might evince its connections and lines of origin, descent, and reaction. Secondly, given that this book proceeds by way of close textual analysis, it is necessarily selective, focusing on the ...
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... context in which poetry was no longer merely an expression or ritual reenactment of local myths. The traveling poet ... Contexts The single most important factor in understanding Plato's 15 classical literary criticism.
... context in which poetry was no longer merely an expression or ritual reenactment of local myths. The traveling poet ... Contexts The single most important factor in understanding Plato's 15 classical literary criticism.
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... context in the Laws. In the first of these dialogues, Socrates discourses with a rhapsode (a singer and interpreter) ... contexts in whose light the connections between the constituent elements of Ion's claim very precisely emerge as ...
... context in the Laws. In the first of these dialogues, Socrates discourses with a rhapsode (a singer and interpreter) ... contexts in whose light the connections between the constituent elements of Ion's claim very precisely emerge as ...
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... context of received wisdom against which philosophy's “true” search for justice can emerge as a refutation. Against the “language about justice and injustice employed by both laymen and poets,” he brings four charges: laymen and poets ...
... context of received wisdom against which philosophy's “true” search for justice can emerge as a refutation. Against the “language about justice and injustice employed by both laymen and poets,” he brings four charges: laymen and poets ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
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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aesthetic Aristotle Aristotle’s artistic audience authority Barthes beauty bourgeois century Christian Cicero classical Coleridge concept consciousness context cultural Derrida dialectic discourse divine economic effectively elements emotion Enlightenment Enneads essay experience expressed feminist French French Revolution Freud function grammar Greek Hegel Hence Hereafter cited heteroglossia Horace’s human Ibn Rushd ideal ideas ideological imagination imitation individual influence insists intellectual judgment Kant Kant’s knowledge Lacan language linguistic literary criticism literary theory literature logic Longinus man’s Marx Marxist meaning medieval merely metaphor metonymy mind modern moral myth nature Neo-Platonism Nietzsche notion object philosophy Plato pleasure Plotinus poem poet poet’s poetic poetry political principles Quintilian rational reader realism reality realm reason relation Renaissance Revolution rhetoric Romantic Romanticism says sense signifier social Socrates soul speech spirit structure sublime T. S. Eliot theory things thinkers thought tion tradition truth understanding unity universal various women words writers