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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... individual and institutional practice of reading, of close, careful, critical reading. Such reading entails a great deal more than merely close attention to the words on the page, or the text as it immediately confronts us. We need to ...
... individual and institutional practice of reading, of close, careful, critical reading. Such reading entails a great deal more than merely close attention to the words on the page, or the text as it immediately confronts us. We need to ...
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... individual and state. Plato's text has inspired several defenses of poetry, notably by Sidney2 and Shelley.3 In general, political commentators have devoted their attention to the notion of justice while literary critics have tended to ...
... individual and state. Plato's text has inspired several defenses of poetry, notably by Sidney2 and Shelley.3 In general, political commentators have devoted their attention to the notion of justice while literary critics have tended to ...
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... individual as cited above comprise variously refracted facets of the same basic ethical model: the control and domination of the “multitude” by a unity. As applied to the individual, the “multitude” refers to the potentially endless ...
... individual as cited above comprise variously refracted facets of the same basic ethical model: the control and domination of the “multitude” by a unity. As applied to the individual, the “multitude” refers to the potentially endless ...
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... individual. Socrates argues that since “the city was thought to be just because three natural kinds existing in it performed each its own function, . . . we shall thus expect the individual also to have these same forms in his soul” (IV ...
... individual. Socrates argues that since “the city was thought to be just because three natural kinds existing in it performed each its own function, . . . we shall thus expect the individual also to have these same forms in his soul” (IV ...
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... individual and state, Plato sees five basic kinds of individual characters or souls, corresponding to the forms of government (VIII, 544e–545c). Even the ideal city, acknowledges Plato, will ultimately crumble. Its deterioration will be ...
... individual and state, Plato sees five basic kinds of individual characters or souls, corresponding to the forms of government (VIII, 544e–545c). Even the ideal city, acknowledges Plato, will ultimately crumble. Its deterioration will be ...
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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