Critical approaches to literature.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1956
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Criticism.; Poetry.
Table of contents: title: The Platonic dilemma -- The Aristotelian solution -- The poet as moral teacher -- Imitation and instruction -- The vindication of pleasure -- Form and the imagination -- Platonism against Plato -- Science and poetry -- The proper sphere of poetry -- The poet and his medium -- The establishment of a critical scene -- Possibilities and limitations of a method -- History, relativism, impressionism -- From appreciation to analysis -- Analysis in action -- Criticism and scholarship -- Criticism and psychology -- Criticism and sociology -- Criticism and the cultural context.