{"product_id":"the-origins-of-criticism-9780691120256","title":"The Origins of Criticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers an understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 \"Andrew Ford has written lively and sophisticated account of the evolution of criticism as an autonomous activity, and illuminated the origins of the modern-day equivalent of those antique experts in literature--the professional academic... [W]hat distinguishes Ford's work from previous studies is the breadth of his scholarship, the detail of his analysis, and above all his historicist approach.\"--Penelope Murray, Times Literary Supplement \"Andrew Ford has taken on the enormous task of tracing the historical background of critical language and the establishment of criticism as a distinct discilpine. He has executed this task with precision, poignancy, and insightful erudition... [T]his eloquent book will be an instant complement to any study of the history of criticism.\"--Eustratios Papaioannou, Bryn Mawr Classical Review \"Ford collects in this volume much useful information about classica literary criticism from Homer to Aristotle... [An] important volume.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE ix  ABBREVIATIONS xiii  INTRODUCTION  Defining Criticism from Homer to Aristotle 1  PART I ARCHAIC ROOTS OF CLASSICAL AESTHETICS 23  ONE  Table Talkand Symposium 25  TWO  Xenophanes and the \"Ancient Quarrel\" 46  THREE  Allegory and the Traditions of Epic Interpretation 67  PART II: THE INVENTION OF POETRY 91  FOUR  Song and Artifact: Simonidean Monuments 93  FIVE  Singer and Craftsman in Pindar and Bacchylides 113  SIX  The Origin of the Word \"Poet\" 131  PART III: TOWARD A THEORY OF POETRY 159  SEVEN  Materialist Poetics: Democritus and Gorgias 161  EIGHT  Literary Culture and Democracy: Poets and Teachers in Classical Athens 188  NINE  Literary Culture in Plato's Republic :The Sound of Ideology 209  PART IV LITERARY THEORY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY 227  TEN  The Invention of Literature: Theories of Prose and the Theory of Poetry 229  ELEVEN  Laws of Poetry: Genre and the Literary System 250  TWELVE  The Rise of the Critic: Poetic Contests from Homer to Aristotle 272  EPILOGUE 294  BIBLIOGRAPHY 297  INDEX OF PASSAGES ISCUSSED 331","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403734720855,"sku":"9780691120256","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691120256.jpg?v=1730484393","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-origins-of-criticism-9780691120256","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}