History of Literary Criticism From Plato to the Present

Name: History of Literary Criticism From Plato to the Present
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ISBN: 9781405176088

ISBN-10: 1405176083

ISBN-13: 9781405176088

Edition: 2007

Authors: M. A. R. Habib

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This 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. Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud's views on civilization Can be used alongside any anthology of literary…

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List price: $75.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 848
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 3.740
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works


Introduction



Ancient Greek Criticism



Plato (428-ca. 347 BC)



Aristotle (348-322 BC)



The Traditions of Rhetoric



Greek Rhetoric (Protagoras, Gorgias, Antihon, Lysias, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle



The Hellenistic Period and Roman Rhetoric. (Rhetorica, Cicero, Quintilian)



Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire



Horace (65-8 BC)



Longinus First Century AD



Neo-Platonism. (Plotinus, Macrobius, Boethius)



The Medieval Era



The Early Middle Ages




The Later Middle Ages Hugh of




Transitions: Medieval Humanism




The Early Modern Period to the Enlightment



The Early Modern Period




Neoclassical Literary Criticism




The Enlightenment




The Earlier Nineteenth Century and Romanticism



The Kantian System and Kant's Aesthetics



G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831)



Romanticism (I): Germany and France




Romanticism (II): England and America




The Later Nineteenth Century



Realism and Naturalism




Symbolism and Aestheticism




The Heterological Thinkers




Marxism




The Twentieth Century



Psychoanalytic Criticism Freud and Lacan



Formalisms




Structuralism




Deconstruction




Feminist Criticism




Reader-Response and Reception Theory




Postcolonial Criticism




New Historicism



Epilogue


Selective Bibliography


Index