Literary criticism from Plato to the present : an introduction /

• Main Author: Habib, Rafey
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, [2011]
• Subjects: Criticism > History.; LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.; Criticism.; Electronic books.; History.

"Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present presents a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory. Encapsulates the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism; Provides historical context and shows the interconnections between...

Table of Contents:

• Classical literary criticism
• The traditions of rhetoric
• Greek and Latin criticism during the Roman Empire
• The early middle ages
• The later middle ages
• The early modern period
• Neoclassical literary criticism
• The enlightenment
• The aesthetics of Kant and Hegel
• Romanticism
• Realism, naturalism, sybolism, and aestheticism
• The heterological thinkers
• From liberal humanism to formalism
• Socially conscious criticism of the earlier twentieth century
• Phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism
• The era of poststructuralism (I) : later Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction
• The era of poststructuralism (II) : postmodernism, modern feminism, gender studies
• The later twentieth century : new historicism, reader-response theory, postcolonial criticism, cultural studies.