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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... divine punishment by failing to make the appropriate sacrifices or by fighting on an ill-omened day or by securing a god's favor by offering gifts. In Plato's view, the gods are “entirely just and good, with no anger, jealousy, spite or ...
... divine punishment by failing to make the appropriate sacrifices or by fighting on an ill-omened day or by securing a god's favor by offering gifts. In Plato's view, the gods are “entirely just and good, with no anger, jealousy, spite or ...
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... divine spheres. This irrationality will eventually inform Plato's indictment of the whole sphere of poetry. The major dialogues of Plato's middle period – Gorgias, Meno, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic – move beyond the ...
... divine spheres. This irrationality will eventually inform Plato's indictment of the whole sphere of poetry. The major dialogues of Plato's middle period – Gorgias, Meno, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic – move beyond the ...
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... divine inspiration (Ion, 533d–534e). According to Socrates, the rhapsode, like the poet himself, is in a state of “divine possession” and speaks not with his own voice, which is merely a medium through which a god speaks. The Muse ...
... divine inspiration (Ion, 533d–534e). According to Socrates, the rhapsode, like the poet himself, is in a state of “divine possession” and speaks not with his own voice, which is merely a medium through which a god speaks. The Muse ...
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... divine and human apparatus for the greater prosperity of the unjust man; (4) most fundamentally, the poets' account is confined to the appearance of justice, not real justice or justice “in itself.” This “poetic” account, according to ...
... divine and human apparatus for the greater prosperity of the unjust man; (4) most fundamentally, the poets' account is confined to the appearance of justice, not real justice or justice “in itself.” This “poetic” account, according to ...
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... divine, to authorize a particular vision of the divine world: for poetry, that world is presented as an anthropomorphic projection of human values centered on self-interest, a world of dark chance, irrational, in flux, and devoid of a ...
... divine, to authorize a particular vision of the divine world: for poetry, that world is presented as an anthropomorphic projection of human values centered on self-interest, a world of dark chance, irrational, in flux, and devoid of a ...
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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