A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the PresentISBN: 978-1-4051-7608-8
Paperback
848 pages
October 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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- An informed guide to the history of literary criticism from
antiquity to the present day
- 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