04288nam 2200793 a 450 991046524770332120210727114229.01-282-15712-41-4008-2506-797866121571270-691-07485-210.1515/9781400825066(CKB)2560000000324397(EBL)457793(OCoLC)647823094(SSID)ssj0000216441(PQKBManifestationID)11191063(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216441(PQKBWorkID)10197993(PQKB)10175709(MiAaPQ)EBC457793(MdBmJHUP)muse36076(DE-B1597)446512(OCoLC)979623779(DE-B1597)9781400825066(PPN)199244375(Au-PeEL)EBL457793(CaPaEBR)ebr10312442(CaONFJC)MIL215712(EXLCZ)99256000000032439720010730d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe origins of criticism[electronic resource] literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece /Andrew FordCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20021 online resource (372 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-12025-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-330) and indexes.pt. 1. Archaic roots of classical aesthetics -- pt. 2. The invention of poetry -- pt. 3. Toward a theory of poetry -- pt. 4. Literary theory in the fourth century.By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should--if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from. Andrew Ford offers a new understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. He pinpoints when and how, later in the Greek tradition than is usually assumed, poetry was studied as a discipline with its own principles and methods. The Origins of Criticism complements the usual, history-of-ideas approach to the topic precisely by treating criticism as a social as well as a theoretical activity. With unprecedented and penetrating detail, Ford considers varying scholarly interpretations of the key texts discussed. Examining Greek discussions of poetry from the late sixth century B.C. through the rise of poetics in the late fourth, he asks when we first can recognize anything like the modern notions of literature as imaginative writing and of literary criticism as a special knowledge of such writing. Serving as a monumental preface to Aristotle's Poetics, this book allows readers to discern the emergence, within the manifold activities that might be called criticism, of the historically specific discourse on poetry that has shaped subsequent Western approaches to literature.Greek literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcLiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etcPoetryHistory and criticismTheory, etcCriticismGreeceHistoryTo 1500LiteraturePhilosophyPhilosophy, AncientRhetoric, AncientElectronic books.Greek literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.LiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.PoetryHistory and criticismTheory, etc.CriticismHistoryLiteraturePhilosophy.Philosophy, Ancient.Rhetoric, Ancient.880.9/001Ford Andrew Laughlin286858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465247703321The origins of criticism2190678UNINA