| Description |
ix, 838 pages ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Plato -- Aristotle -- Greek rhetoric -- Roman rhetoric and criticism -- Horace -- Longinus -- Neo-platonism -- Mediaeval criticism (i) -- Mediaeval criticism (ii) -- Mediaeval humanism -- Renaissance criticism -- Neoclassicism -- Enlightenment -- Kant -- Hegel -- Romanticism (i) -- Romanticism (ii) -- Realism and naturalism -- Symbolism and decadence -- The heterological thinkers -- Marxism -- Formalism -- Structuralism -- Deconstruction -- Feminism -- Hermeneutics and reader-response theory -- Postcolonial criticism -- New historicism |
| Summary |
"This book is a guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day. It not only provides an overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, but also supplies the cultural, historical, and philosophical background which enables students to see them in context."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 777-790) and index |
| Subject |
Criticism -- History.
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| LC no. |
2005004898 |
| ISBN |
0631232001 (hard cover : alk. paper) |
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9780631232001 (hard cover : alk. paper) |
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