A History of Literary Criticism and Theory

Literary Criticism from Plato to the Presentpresents an authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory. In clear, concise, and elegant prose, the acclaimed literary scholar M. A. R. Habib introduces major critical movements, figures, and texts, while paying close attention to textual detail, broader historical context, and the interconnection...

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Literary Criticism from Plato to the Presentpresents an authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory. In clear, concise, and elegant prose, the acclaimed literary scholar M. A. R. Habib introduces major critical movements, figures, and texts, while paying close attention to textual detail, broader historical context, and the interconnections between various theories. Beginning with Classical literary criticism, the author goes on to explore literary criticism from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern and Modern periods into the twentieth century, including in his treatment major historical phenomena such as the French Revolution and major philosophies and political theories such as those of Locke and Marx. Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present is an indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory.

M.A.R. Habib was born in India, grew up in England and now lives in America. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and is currently Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of six books, including A History Of Literary Criticism: From Plato To The Present (2005) and An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry in English Translation. He is currently...

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M.A.R. Habib was born in India, grew up in England and now lives in America. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and is currently Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of six books, including A History Of Literary Criticism: From Plato To The Present (2005) and An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry in English Translation. He is currently editing the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol VI and the Oxford Anthology of Literary Criticism and Theory.

Acknowledgments viii
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works ix
Introduction 1
Part I Ancient Greek Criticism 7
Classical Literary Criticism: Intellectual and Political Backgrounds 9
1 Plato (428–ca. 347 bc) 19
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Acknowledgments viii
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works ix
Introduction 1
Part I Ancient Greek Criticism 7
Classical Literary Criticism: Intellectual and Political Backgrounds 9
1 Plato (428–ca. 347 bc) 19
2 Aristotle (384–322 bc) 41
Part II The Traditions of Rhetoric 63
3 Greek Rhetoric 65
Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Lysias, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle
4 The Hellenistic Period and Roman Rhetoric 80
Rhetorica, Cicero, Quintilian
Part III Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire 103
5 Horace (65–8 bc) 105
6 Longinus (First Century ad) 118
7 Neo-Platonism 129
Plotinus, Macrobius, Boethius
Part IV The Medieval Era 149
8 The Early Middle Ages 151
St. Augustine
9 The Later Middle Ages 166
Hugh of St. Victor, John of Salisbury, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey de
Vinsauf, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), St. Thomas Aquinas
10 Transitions: Medieval Humanism 215
Giovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan
Part V The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment 227
11 The Early Modern Period 229
Giambattista Giraldi, Lodovico Castelvetro, Giacopo Mazzoni,
Torquato Tasso, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Sir Philip Sidney,
George Gascoigne, George Puttenham
12 Neoclassical Literary Criticism 273
Pierre Corneille, Nicolas Boileau, John Dryden, Alexander Pope,
Aphra Behn, Samuel Johnson
13 The Enlightenment 311
John Locke, Joseph Addison, Giambattista Vico, David Hume,
Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft
Part VI The Earlier Nineteenth Century and Romanticism 347
Introduction to the Modern Period 349
14 The Kantian System and Kant’s Aesthetics 357
15 G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831) 382
16 Romanticism (I): Germany and France 408
Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Germaine de Staël
17 Romanticism (II): England and America 428
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Edgar Allan Poe
Part VII The Later Nineteenth Century
18 Realism and Naturalism 469
George Eliot, Émile Zola, William Dean Howells, Henry James
19 Symbolism and Aestheticism 489
Charles Baudelaire, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde
20 The Heterological Thinkers 502
Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson,
Matthew Arnold
21 Marxism 527
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, György Lukács, Terry Eagleton
Part VIII The Twentieth Century 555
The Twentieth Century: Backgrounds and Perspectives 557
22 Psychoanalytic Criticism 571
Freud and Lacan
23 Formalisms 602
Victor Shklovsky, Boris Eichenbaum, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roman Jakobson,
John Crowe Ransom, William K. Wimsatt, Monroe C. Beardsley, T. S. Eliot
24 Structuralism 631
Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes
25 Deconstruction 649
Jacques Derrida
26 Feminist Criticism 667
Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elaine Showalter, Michèle Barrett,
Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous
27 Reader-Response and Reception Theory 708
Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser,
Stanley Fish
28 Postcolonial Criticism 737
Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha,
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
29 New Historicism 760
Stephen Greenblatt, Michel Foucault
Epilogue 772
Selective Bibliography 777
Index 791
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