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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... women, resident aliens, and a vast number of slaves, formed a permanently excluded majority. Even most free men, whether working on the land or in the cities, were poor and had little hope of economic betterment (LWC, 32). This ...
... women, resident aliens, and a vast number of slaves, formed a permanently excluded majority. Even most free men, whether working on the land or in the cities, were poor and had little hope of economic betterment (LWC, 32). This ...
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... woman, from an animal, from a plant, and so forth. We can quickly begin to see how our definition will have vast economic and political implications: if we define our “man” as rational, as political, as moral, and as free, it will seem ...
... woman, from an animal, from a plant, and so forth. We can quickly begin to see how our definition will have vast economic and political implications: if we define our “man” as rational, as political, as moral, and as free, it will seem ...
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... women and slaves can be “good” even though “a woman is an inferior thing and a slave beneath consideration” (Poetics, XV.1–3). The implication is that the most appropriate personages for tragedy must not only be male and free citizens ...
... women and slaves can be “good” even though “a woman is an inferior thing and a slave beneath consideration” (Poetics, XV.1–3). The implication is that the most appropriate personages for tragedy must not only be male and free citizens ...
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... women and slaves are relegated to secondary importance. While there are of course exceptions to such exclusiveness ... woman, or vice versa. This is related to the fourth prescription, that a character should be “consistent” (Poetics, XV ...
... women and slaves are relegated to secondary importance. While there are of course exceptions to such exclusiveness ... woman, or vice versa. This is related to the fourth prescription, that a character should be “consistent” (Poetics, XV ...
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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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