A History of Literary Criticism and Theory – From Plato to the Present

<p>Acknowledgments viii</p>
<p>Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works ix</p>
<p>Introduction 1</p>
<p>Part I Ancient Greek Criticism 7</p>
<p>Classical Literary Criticism: Intellectual and Political Backgrounds 9</p>
<p>1 Plato (428 ca. 347 bc) 19</p>
<p>2 Aristotle (384 322 bc) 41</p>
<p>Part II The Traditions of Rhetoric 63</p>
<p>3 Greek Rhetoric 65<br />Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Lysias, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle</p>
<p>4 The Hellenistic Period and Roman Rhetoric 80<br />Rhetorica, Cicero, Quintilian</p>
<p>Part III Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire 103</p>
<p>5 Horace (65 8 bc) 105</p>
<p>6 Longinus (First Century ad) 118</p>
<p>7 Neo–Platonism 129<br />Plotinus, Macrobius, Boethius</p>
<p>Part IV The Medieval Era 149</p>
<p>8 The Early Middle Ages 151</p>
<p>St. Augustine</p>
<p>9 The Later Middle Ages 166<br />Hugh of St. Victor, John of Salisbury, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Ibn Rushd (Averro&euml;s), St. Thomas Aquinas</p>
<p>10 Transitions: Medieval Humanism 215<br />Giovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan</p>
<p>Part V The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment 227</p>
<p>11 The Early Modern Period 229<br />Giambattista Giraldi, Lodovico Castelvetro, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Sir Philip Sidney, George Gascoigne, George Puttenham</p>
<p>12 Neoclassical Literary Criticism 273<br />Pierre Corneille, Nicolas Boileau, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Samuel Johnson</p>
<p>13 The Enlightenment 311<br />John Locke, Joseph Addison, Giambattista Vico, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft</p>
<p>Part VI The Earlier Nineteenth Century and Romanticism 347</p>
<p>Introduction to the Modern Period 349</p>
<p>14 The Kantian System and Kant s Aesthetics 357</p>
<p>15 G. W. F. Hegel (1770 1831) 382</p>
<p>16 Romanticism (I): Germany and France 408<br />Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Germaine de Sta&euml;l</p>
<p>17 Romanticism (II): England and America 428<br />William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe</p>
<p>Part VII The Later Nineteenth Century 467</p>
<p>18 Realism and Naturalism 469<br />George Eliot, &Eacute;mile Zola, William Dean Howells, Henry James</p>
<p>19 Symbolism and Aestheticism 489<br />Charles Baudelaire, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>20 The Heterological Thinkers 502<br />Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Matthew Arnold</p>
<p>21 Marxism 527<br />Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Gy&ouml;rgy Luk&aacute;cs, Terry Eagleton</p>
<p>Part VIII The Twentieth Century 555</p>
<p>The Twentieth Century: Backgrounds and Perspectives 557</p>
<p>22 Psychoanalytic Criticism 571<br />Freud and Lacan</p>
<p>23 Formalisms 602<br />Victor Shklovsky, Boris Eichenbaum, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roman Jakobson, John Crowe Ransom, William K. Wimsatt, Monroe C. Beardsley, T. S. Eliot</p>
<p>24 Structuralism 631<br />Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes</p>
<p>25 Deconstruction 649<br />Jacques Derrida</p>
<p>26 Feminist Criticism 667<br />Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elaine Showalter, Mich&egrave;le Barrett, Julia Kristeva, H&eacute;l&egrave;ne Cixous</p>
<p>27 Reader–Response and Reception Theory 708<br />Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish</p>
<p>28 Postcolonial Criticism 737<br />Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.</p>
<p>29 New Historicism 760<br />Stephen Greenblatt, Michel Foucault</p>
<p>Epilogue 772</p>
<p>Selective Bibliography 777</p>
<p>Index 791</p>