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The origins of criticism : literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece / / Andrew Ford



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Autore: Ford Andrew Laughlin Visualizza persona
Titolo: The origins of criticism : literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece / / Andrew Ford Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 p.)
Disciplina: 880.9/001
Soggetto topico: Greek literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Criticism - Greece - History - To 1500
Literature - Philosophy
Philosophy, Ancient
Rhetoric, Ancient
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-330) and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The origins of criticism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-15712-4
1-4008-2506-7
9786612157127
0-691-07485-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813959803321
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