A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the PresentISBN: 978-0-631-23200-1
Hardcover
848 pages
August 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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This 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.
- Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background
to the literary criticism of each era
- Enables students to see the development of literary criticism
in context
- Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism
through to deconstruction
- Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French
Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization
- Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction