{"product_id":"a-history-of-literary-criticism-9781405176088","title":"A History of Literary Criticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eSupplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEnables students to see the development of literary criticism in context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOrganised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud's views on civilization\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCan be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of a 2006 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“[A] magnificently comprehensive history of literary criticism. Authoritative, formidable, generous and compassionate … Habib's achievements are many, but two stand out. The first is the putting of theory into historical perspective and the second is to make connections between criticism and philosophy.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a book to be read cover to cover, and those who undertake that happy task will be better informed. They will understand the twin pillars of Western civilization, Hellenism and the Judaic Christian ethic. They will understand the intersections of philosophy, literature, and religion. They will understand Plato, Aristotle, the Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the three great thinkers who forever shifted thought at the beginning of the 20th century: Marx, Freud, and Darwin. Dividing the discussion into eight chronological sections, from ancient Greece to the 20th century, Habib (English, Rutgers Univ.) discusses each period in detail, exploring major critical figures and their works in a way that illuminates, rather than exhausts, the issues they are concerned with. His explorations entice one to read more, and that is the best kind of criticism. Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Philosophically sophisticated and full of fascinating connections and distinctions ...a monumental achievement.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRon Bush, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Rafey Habib's \u003ci\u003eHistory of Literary Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e, with its substantial grounding in classical texts and its excellent coverage of contemporary criticism and theory, is certain to be as highly regarded as Wimsatt and Brooks' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Criticism: A Short History\u003c\/i\u003e. Habib's lucidity and wit will also make his book highly teachable.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Payne, Bucknell University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This huge undertaking offers a comprehensive, expository and lucid account - including close readings of selected formative texts - of the history of literary criticism and theory from the earliest western classics to influential contemporary movements, while also embedding these in their broader social, cultural and philosophical contexts. A major resource - as narrative or as compendium - for students at all levels.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Widdowson, University of Gloucestershire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, Habib traces how the study of literature evolved in the West. His strength lies in his short segments, which allow readers to absorb the major thoughts of the critics and movements without being overwhelmed. While the book runs nearly 900 pages, it is easy to maneuver. All told, Habib delivers an accessible yet scholarly survey of literary criticism.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRon Ratliff, Kansas State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e by M. A. R. Habib is a useful introduction and quick reference … The attention to each writer and their major works is significant and detailed, with major historical interpretive shifts noted.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStudies in English Literature 1500 - 1900\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Best single-volume introduction to Western literary theory … .With its admirably clear explanation of concepts and terminology, [it] admirably fulfils the promise of its title.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiterary Research Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\"Habib's survey of literary theory and criticism is serious, ambitious, informative and intellectually challenging.\" \u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations of Frequently Cited Works ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Ancient Greek Criticism 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Literary Criticism: Intellectual and Political Backgrounds 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Plato (428–ca. 347 bc) 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Aristotle (384–322 bc) 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Traditions of Rhetoric 63\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Greek Rhetoric 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProtagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Lysias, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Hellenistic Period and Roman Rhetoric 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRhetorica, Cicero, Quintilian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Horace (65–8 bc) 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Longinus (First Century ad) 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Neo-Platonism 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlotinus, Macrobius, Boethius\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The Medieval Era 149\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Early Middle Ages 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSt. Augustine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Later Middle Ages 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHugh of St. Victor, John of Salisbury, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), St. Thomas Aquinas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Transitions: Medieval Humanism 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment 227\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Early Modern Period 229\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiambattista Giraldi, Lodovico Castelvetro, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Sir Philip Sidney, George Gascoigne, George Puttenham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Neoclassical Literary Criticism 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierre Corneille, Nicolas Boileau, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Samuel Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Enlightenment 311\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Locke, Joseph Addison, Giambattista Vico, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI The Earlier Nineteenth Century and Romanticism 347\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the Modern Period 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Kantian System and Kant’s Aesthetics 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831) 382\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Romanticism (I): Germany and France 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriedrich von Schiller, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Germaine de Staël\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Romanticism (II): England and America 428\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII The Later Nineteenth Century 467\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Realism and Naturalism 469\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Eliot, Émile Zola, William Dean Howells, Henry James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Symbolism and Aestheticism 489\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Baudelaire, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Heterological Thinkers 502\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Matthew Arnold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Marxism 527\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels, György Lukács, Terry Eagleton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII The Twentieth Century 555\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Twentieth Century: Backgrounds and Perspectives 557\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Psychoanalytic Criticism 571\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFreud and Lacan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Formalisms 602\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictor Shklovsky, Boris Eichenbaum, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roman Jakobson, John Crowe Ransom, William K. Wimsatt, Monroe C. Beardsley, T. S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Structuralism 631\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFerdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Deconstruction 649\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacques Derrida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Feminist Criticism 667\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elaine Showalter, Michèle Barrett, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Reader-Response and Reception Theory 708\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Postcolonial Criticism 737\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 New Historicism 760\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Greenblatt, Michel Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue 772\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelective Bibliography 777\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 791\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866714452311,"sku":"9781405176088","price":45.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405176088.jpg?v=1722279874","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-literary-criticism-9781405176088","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}