{"product_id":"literary-criticism-from-plato-to-the-present-9781405160353","title":"Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Criticism from Plato to the Present\u003c\/i\u003eprovides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides historical context and shows the interconnections between various theories\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn ideal text for all students of literature and criticism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Habib aims to offer a concise, authoritative overview of literary criticism and theory in the West via an in-depth examination of its key movements, figures and texts.\" (Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 February 2011) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Classical Literary Criticism and Rhetoric.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Classical Literary Criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the Classical Period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato (428–ca. 347 BC).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle (384–322 BC).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Traditions of Rhetoric.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreek Rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoman Rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Subsequent History of Rhetoric: An Overview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Legacy of Rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHorace (65–8 BC).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLonginus (First Century AD).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeo-Platonism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Medieval Era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The Early Middle Ages.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Background.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntellectual and Theological Currents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Later Middle Ages.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Background.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntellectual Currents of the Later Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Traditions of Medieval Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransitions: Medieval Humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Early Modern Period.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Background.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntellectual Background.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConfronting the Classical Heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefending the Vernacular.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetics and the Defense of Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetic Form and Rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Neoclassical Literary Criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrench Neoclassicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeoclassicism in England.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 The Enlightenment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical and Intellectual Background.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnlightenment Literary Criticism: Language, Taste, and Imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImmanuel Kant (1724–1804).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHegel (1770–1831).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Romanticism and the Later Nineteenth Century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Romanticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGermany.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerica.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and Aestheticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Background: The Later Nineteenth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealism and Naturalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSymbolism and Aestheticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 The Heterological Thinkers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenri Bergson (1859–1941).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Arnold (1822–1888).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V The Twentieth Century: A Brief Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 From Liberal Humanism to Formalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Background of Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poetics of Modernism: W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRussian Formalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Socially Conscious Criticism of the Earlier Twentieth Century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eF. R. Leavis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist and Left-Wing Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fundamental Principles of Marxism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxist Literary Criticism: A Historical Overview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Feminist Criticism: Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Phenomenology, Existentialism, Structuralism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhenomenology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExistentialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeterology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructuralism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 The Era of Poststructuralism (I): Later Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLater Marxist Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e17 The Era of Poststructuralism (II): Postmodernism, Modern Feminism, Gender Studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJurgen Habermas (b. 1929).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Baudrillard (1929–2007).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean-Fran¸cois Lyotard (1924–1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins; b. 1952).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e18 The Later Twentieth Century: New Historicism, Reader-Response Theory, Postcolonial Criticism, Cultural Studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Historicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReader-Response and Reception Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue New Directions: Looking Back, Looking Forward.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866713731415,"sku":"9781405160353","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405160353.jpg?v=1722279871","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-criticism-from-plato-to-the-present-9781405160353","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}