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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... understanding among the world's multifarious cultures will be the single greatest task that we face, after the failure of the world to feed itself.”1 It has become indisputably clear that the study of the humanities in general is no ...
... understanding among the world's multifarious cultures will be the single greatest task that we face, after the failure of the world to feed itself.”1 It has become indisputably clear that the study of the humanities in general is no ...
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... understanding of their views on literature and art; moreover, those systems themselves are still with us in many ... understanding of modern Western thought. For example, we cannot begin to understand the world that we have inherited ...
... understanding of their views on literature and art; moreover, those systems themselves are still with us in many ... understanding of modern Western thought. For example, we cannot begin to understand the world that we have inherited ...
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... understanding subsequent Greek literary theory: the domain of truth becomes an arena of fierce contention between poetry and philosophy. A second consequence of pan-Hellenism, furthering the process of standardization, was the evolution ...
... understanding subsequent Greek literary theory: the domain of truth becomes an arena of fierce contention between poetry and philosophy. A second consequence of pan-Hellenism, furthering the process of standardization, was the evolution ...
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... understanding, there are basically two components of the rhapsodist's art: learning the lines of a given poet must be backed by understanding of his thought (Ion, 530b–c). Most of Socrates' argument concerning rhapsody addresses its ...
... understanding, there are basically two components of the rhapsodist's art: learning the lines of a given poet must be backed by understanding of his thought (Ion, 530b–c). Most of Socrates' argument concerning rhapsody addresses its ...
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... understanding it, we approach it in terms of its qualities, its relations to other entities, its position in space and time, and so on. But, according to Aristotle, there must be an underlying substrate or substance to which these ...
... understanding it, we approach it in terms of its qualities, its relations to other entities, its position in space and time, and so on. But, according to Aristotle, there must be an underlying substrate or substance to which these ...
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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