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.
|
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 84
Page 13
... universal patron, Greek tragedy and comedy . . . were as much part of the process of faceto-face discussion as a debate in a legislative assembly” (LWC, 28). Even the internal structure of drama was influenced by the ideal of the polis ...
... universal patron, Greek tragedy and comedy . . . were as much part of the process of faceto-face discussion as a debate in a legislative assembly” (LWC, 28). Even the internal structure of drama was influenced by the ideal of the polis ...
Page 15
... universal, timeless, and unchanging. It becomes an “implicit promise” that the performer will coin no changes to “accommodate the interests of any local audience,” and will give rise to “the pleasure of exact performance” (CHLC, V.I, 47 ...
... universal, timeless, and unchanging. It becomes an “implicit promise” that the performer will coin no changes to “accommodate the interests of any local audience,” and will give rise to “the pleasure of exact performance” (CHLC, V.I, 47 ...
Page 16
... universal truths that are independent of human cognition. So profound was Plato's opposition to sophistical and rhetorical ways of thinking that his own philosophy is internally shaped and generated by negating their claims. His so ...
... universal truths that are independent of human cognition. So profound was Plato's opposition to sophistical and rhetorical ways of thinking that his own philosophy is internally shaped and generated by negating their claims. His so ...
Page 30
... universal. In projecting this model onto the state as a whole, Plato aligns the mass of people with the unruly multitude of desires in the soul, and the guardians considered collectively with the unity of reason. The individuality of ...
... universal. In projecting this model onto the state as a whole, Plato aligns the mass of people with the unruly multitude of desires in the soul, and the guardians considered collectively with the unity of reason. The individuality of ...
Page 35
... universal (V, 476c; VI, 484b). Hence the guardians, after their initial study of music and gymnastics, must undertake the study of unity “as such” (VII, 524e), fostered by training in number or arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. These ...
... universal (V, 476c; VI, 484b). Hence the guardians, after their initial study of music and gymnastics, must undertake the study of unity “as such” (VII, 524e), fostered by training in number or arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. These ...
Contents
1 | |
7 | |
63 | |
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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