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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... relations than in the subservient relation of each of them to the desired political end. In view of this, the struggle between philosophy and poetry emerges as a struggle for language, a struggle not merely to define the qualities of ...
... relations than in the subservient relation of each of them to the desired political end. In view of this, the struggle between philosophy and poetry emerges as a struggle for language, a struggle not merely to define the qualities of ...
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... relation to which activity or discipline it can be subordinated or superordinated. It spreads its influence limitlessly, dissolving social relations as it pleases and recreating them from its own store of inspired wisdom whose opacity ...
... relation to which activity or discipline it can be subordinated or superordinated. It spreads its influence limitlessly, dissolving social relations as it pleases and recreating them from its own store of inspired wisdom whose opacity ...
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... relations belong. Hence substance, for Aristotle, has primacy of place in these categories: it both underlies the other categories, as their substratum, and bears to them a relation of subject to predicate (the Greek word 42 part i ...
... relations belong. Hence substance, for Aristotle, has primacy of place in these categories: it both underlies the other categories, as their substratum, and bears to them a relation of subject to predicate (the Greek word 42 part i ...
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... relation to virtue, thought, emotion, and character. In general terms, then, the connection between poetic imitation ... relationship between imitation and action is that of means and end. However, the connection between them is also ...
... relation to virtue, thought, emotion, and character. In general terms, then, the connection between poetic imitation ... relationship between imitation and action is that of means and end. However, the connection between them is also ...
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... relation to which the art and cultural practice of rhetoric has achieved articulation: the political sphere, which oversaw the birth of rhetoric; the institution and discipline of philosophy, whose spokesmen have often derogated ...
... relation to which the art and cultural practice of rhetoric has achieved articulation: the political sphere, which oversaw the birth of rhetoric; the institution and discipline of philosophy, whose spokesmen have often derogated ...
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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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