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A history of literary criticism : from Plato to the present

"This book is a guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day. It not only provides an overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, but also supplies the cultural, historical, and philosophical background which enables students to see them in context."--Jacket
eBook, English, 2005
Blackwell Pub., Malden, Mass., 2005
Electronic books
1 online resource (ix, 838 pages)
9780470752142, 9781405148849, 0470752149, 1405148845
184983350
Plato
Aristotle
Greek rhetoric
The Hellenistic period and Roman rhetoric
Horace
Longinus
Neo-platonism
The early Middle Ages
The later Middle Ages
Transitions : medieval humanism
The early modern period
Neoclassical literary criticism
The Enlightenment
The Kantian system and Kant's aesthetics
G.W.F. Hegel
Romanticism (I) : Germany and France
Romanticism (II) : England and America
Realism and naturalism
Symbolism and aestheticism
The heterological thinkers
Marxism
Psychoanalytic criticism
Formalisms
Structuralism
Deconstruction
Feminist criticism
Reader-response and reception theory
Postcolonial criticism
New historicism