Author : Hazard Adams
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN :
This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show students how critical theory has evolved and progressed over time.
Author : Hazard Adams
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 891 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813008448
"Critical Theory Since 1965 is a collection of theoretical writing of the last twenty years by thirty-eight contemporary theorists and, as background, eighteen important intellectual precursors. It is by far the most complete representation of recent critical theory available, including phenomenologists, structuralists, deconstructionists, Marxists, feminists, reader - response critics, dissenters, and eccentricts, and supplying the background texts necessary for a working understanding of contemporary critical vocabulary and thought." From the bookjacket.
Author : Hazard Adams
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
CRITICAL THEORY SINCE PLATO is a chronologically-arranged anthology that presents a broad survey of the history and development of literary criticism and theory in Western culture. Written by two well-known scholars in the field of literary study, this well-respected text puts an emphasis on the individual contributors to the development of literary criticism, from Plato and Aristotle to the present.
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Page : 389 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
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ISBN : 0674971760
Author : M. A. R. Habib
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444351567
Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day An indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory Introduces the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism Provides historical context and shows the interconnections between various theories An ideal text for all students of literature and criticism
Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135053014
This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history.
Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 029930650X
Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.
Author : M. A. R. Habib
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405148845
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. 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
Author : Richard Harland
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312224820
Richard Harland provides a lucid account of all the major movements in literary theory up to the late 1960s. In a lucid and accessible style, he unfolds a comprehensive "story" of literary theory in all its manifestations. Because contemporary literary theory depends heavily upon European thinkers, the book has an international focus, and its coverage extends from philosophers to social theorists to linguists. Harland explains the essential principles of each theoretical position, looking behind particular critical judgments and interpretations in order to convey a core grasp of underlying positions.
Author : Anne H. Stevens
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1770485619
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
