A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present - Softcover

Habib, M. A. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405176083 ISBN 13: 9781405176088

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts.

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• Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era
  
• Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context
  
• Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction
  
• Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization
  
• Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction

About this title

Book Description:

A guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day. An overview of the major movements, figures and texts of literary criticism. The cultural, historical, and philosophical background which enables students to see literary criticism in context. Starting with a comprehensive section on classical literary criticism, Habib shows how the central philosophical principles of Plato and Aristotle not only underlie their specific comments on literature, but also lay out the foundations and categories of much subsequent Western thought. Similarly, for each subsequent period, the book combines background information, whether on the philosophy of Locke, the history of the French Revolution, the political theories of Marx and Engels, or Freud's views on civilization, with coverage of the major figures and texts of literary-critical thought.

From the Back Cover:

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.

The organization of the book is broadly chronological. Starting with a comprehensive section on classical literary criticism, it shows how the central philosophical principles of Plato and Aristotle not only underlie their specific comments on literature, but also lay out the foundations and categories of much subsequent Western thought. Similarly, for each subsequent period, the book combines back ground information, whether on the philosophy of Locke, the history of the French Revolution, the political theories of Marx and Engels, or Freud's views on civilization withy coverage of the major figures and texts of literary-critical thought.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405176083
• ISBN 13: 9781405176088
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 848