Literary criticism from Plato to the present : an introduction / M.A.R. Habib.

Author/creator Habib, Rafey
Other author Habib, Rafey
Format Book
Publication InfoChichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Descriptionix, 298 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Classical literary criticism -- The traditions of rhetoric -- Greek and Latin criticism during the Roman Empire -- The early middle ages -- The later middle ages -- The early modern period -- Neoclassical literary criticism -- The enlightenment -- The aesthetics of Kant and Hegel -- Romanticism -- Realism, naturalism, sybolism, and aestheticism -- The heterological thinkers -- From liberal humanism to formalism -- Socially conscious criticism of the earlier twentieth century -- Phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism -- The era of poststructuralism (I) : later Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction -- The era of poststructuralism (II) : postmodernism, modern feminism, gender studies -- The later twentieth century : new historicism, reader-response theory, postcolonial criticism, cultural studies.
General noteRevised ed. of: A history of literary criticism : from Plato to the present. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010021915
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