| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 838 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Provides an overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, and supplies the cultural, historical, and philosophical background which enables students to see them in context. This book is a guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 777-790) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Criticism -- History
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Literature -- History and criticism
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Criticism
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Literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781405148849 |
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1405148845 |
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