Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present : An Introduction

• Autore: Habib M. A. R
• Pubblicazione: Somerset : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2011; ©2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Disciplina: 801.9509
• Soggetto topico: Criticism -- History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di contenuto: LITERARY CRITICISM from Plato to the Present: AN INTRODUCTION -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Classical Literary Criticism and Rhetoric -- Chapter 1: Classical Literary Criticism -- Plato (428-ca. 347 BC) -- Aristotle (384-322 BC) -- Chapter 2: The Traditions of Rhetoric -- Greek Rhetoric -- Roman Rhetoric -- The Subsequent History of Rhetoric: An Overview -- The Legacy of Rhetoric -- Chapter 3: Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Longinus (First Century AD) -- Neo-Platonism -- Part II: The Medieval Era -- Chapter 4: The Early Middle Ages -- Historical Background -- Intellectual and Theological Currents -- Chapter 5: The Later Middle Ages -- Historical Background -- Intellectual Currents of the Later Middle Ages -- The Traditions of Medieval Criticism -- Transitions: Medieval Humanism -- Part III: The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment -- Chapter 6: The Early Modern Period -- Historical Background -- Intellectual Background -- Confronting the Classical Heritage -- Defending the Vernacular -- Poetics and the Defense of Poetry -- Poetic Form and Rhetoric -- Chapter 7: Neoclassical Literary Criticism -- French Neoclassicism -- Neoclassicism in England -- Chapter 8: The Enlightenment -- Historical and Intellectual Background -- Enlightenment Literary Criticism: Language, Taste, and Imagination -- Chapter 9: The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Hegel (1770-1831) -- Part IV: Romanticism and the Later Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 10: Romanticism -- Germany -- France -- England -- America -- Chapter 11: Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and Aestheticism -- Historical Background: The Later Nineteenth Century -- Realism and Naturalism -- Symbolism and Aestheticism -- Chapter 12: The Heterological Thinkers -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). ; Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Henri Bergson (1859-1941) -- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) -- Part V: The Twentieth Century: A Brief Introduction -- Introduction -- Chapter 13: From Liberal Humanism to Formalism -- The Background of Modernism -- The Poetics of Modernism: W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot -- Formalism -- Russian Formalism -- The New Criticism -- Chapter 14: Socially Conscious Criticism of the Earlier Twentieth Century -- F. R. Leavis -- Marxist and Left-Wing Criticism -- The Fundamental Principles of Marxism -- Marxist Literary Criticism: A Historical Overview -- Early Feminist Criticism: Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf -- Chapter 15: Phenomenology, Existentialism, Structuralism -- Phenomenology -- Existentialism -- Heterology -- Structuralism -- Chapter 16: The Era of Poststructuralism (I): Later Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction -- Later Marxist Criticism -- Psychoanalysis -- Deconstruction -- Chapter 17: The Era of Poststructuralism (II): Postmodernism, Modern Feminism, Gender Studies -- Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) -- Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) -- Jean-Fran¸cois Lyotard (1924-1998) -- bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins -- b. 1952) -- Modern Feminism -- Gender Studies -- Chapter 18: The Later Twentieth Century: New Historicism, Reader- Response Theory, Postcolonial Criticism, Cultural Studies -- The New Historicism -- Reader-Response and Reception Theory -- Postcolonial Criticism -- Cultural Studies -- Epilogue: New Directions: Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Rafey Habib's book carves out a distinctive niche in this lately much-discussed but still strikingly eventful and rewarding history of thought." -Christopher Norris, Cardiff University.
• Titolo autorizzato: Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present
• ISBN: 9781444328011; 9781405160353
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815542103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II