Title: A history of literary criticism : from Plato to the present /
Authors: Habib, Rafey.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Criticism History.; Literature history
Abstract: "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."--Jacket.
Contents: Plato -- Aristotle -- Greek rhetoric -- The Hellenistic period and Roman rhetoric -- Horace -- Longinus -- Neo-platonism -- The early Middle Ages -- The later Middle Ages -- Transitions : medieval humanism -- The early modern period -- Neoclassical literary criticism -- The Enlightenment -- The Kantian system and Kant's aesthetics -- G.W.F. Hegel -- Romanticism (I) : Germany and France -- Romanticism (II) : England and America -- Realism and naturalism -- Symbolism and aestheticism -- The heterological thinkers -- Marxism -- Psychoanalytic criticism -- Formalisms -- Structuralism -- Deconstruction -- Feminist criticism -- Reader-response and reception theory -- Postcolonial criticism -- New historicism.