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Title The Cambridge history of literary criticism. Vol. 1, Classical criticism / edited by George A. Kennedy
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 369 pages)
Contents Early Greek views of poets and poetry / Gregory Nagy -- Language and meaning in archaic and classical Greece / George A. Kennedy -- Plato and poetry / G.R.F. Ferrari -- Aristotle's poetics / Stephen Halliwell -- The evolution of a theory of artistic prose / George A. Kennedy -- Hellenistic literary and philosophical scholarship / George A. Kennedy and Doreen C. Innes -- The growth of literature and criticism at Rome / Elaine Fantham -- Augustan Critics / Dorren C. Innes -- Latin Criticism of the Early Empire / Elaine Fantham -- Greek Criticism of the Empire / Donald A. Russell -- Christianity and Criticism / George A. Kennedy
Summary "Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism focuses on criticism in the Classical period up to about A.D. 325. This first survey examines the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece, including the functions of poetry and the role of poets in early Greek society, and continues with authoritative discussion of the critical writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic scholars. It examines Roman figures including Horace, Cicero, Quintilian and Tacitus, and also considers Greek critics of the Augustan and imperial periods such as Longinus, and the neo-platonic, Christian and grammatical writers of later antiquity."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed 27 July, 2009)
Subject Criticism -- Europe -- History
Criticism
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kennedy, George A. (George Alexander), 1928-2022
ISBN 9780511468162
0511468164
9781139055338
113905533X
9781139055338
Other Titles History of literary criticism
Classical criticism