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...
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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 contextOrganised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revol
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS OF FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 PLATO (428-CA. 347 BC); CHAPTER 2 ARISTOTLE (384-322 BC); CHAPTER 3 GREEK RHETORIC; CHAPTER 4 THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD AND ROMAN RHETORIC; CHAPTER 5 HORACE (65 - BC); CHAPTER 6 LONGINUS (FIRST CENTURY AD); CHAPTER 7 NEO-PLATONISM; CHAPTER 8 THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES; CHAPTER 9 THE LATER MIDDLE AGES; CHAPTER 10 TRANSITIONS: MEDIEVAL HUMANISM; CHAPTER 11 THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD; CHAPTER 12 NEOCLASSICAL LITERARY CRITICISM; CHAPTER 13 THE ENLIGHTENMENT; CHAPTER 14 THE KANTIAN SYSTEM AND KANT'S AESTHETICS
CHAPTER 15 G. W. F. HEGEL (1770-1831)CHAPTER 16 ROMANTICISM (I): GERMANY AND FRANCE; CHAPTER 17 ROMANTICISM (II): ENGLAND AND AMERICA; CHAPTER 18 REALISM AND NATURALISM; CHAPTER 19 SYMBOLISM AND AESTHETICISM; CHAPTER 20 THE HETEROLOGICAL THINKERS; CHAPTER 21 MARXISM; CHAPTER 22 PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM; CHAPTER 23 FORMALISMS; CHAPTER 24 STRUCTURALISM; CHAPTER 25 DECONSTRUCTION; CHAPTER 26 FEMINIST CRITICISM; CHAPTER 27 READER-RESPONSE AND RECEPTION THEORY; CHAPTER 28 POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM; CHAPTER 29 NEW HISTORICISM; EPILOGUE; SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
