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A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present

ISBN: 978-1-4051-7608-8
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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

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