Critical theory since Plato
This anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This historical textbook focuses on 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.
Print Book, English, ©1992
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, Fort Worth, ©1992
xxi, 1271 pages ; 24 cm
9780155161436, 0155161431
25384187
Poetics / Aristotle
Art of poetry / Horace
On the sublime / Longinus
On the intellectual beauty / Plotinus
On Christian doctrine / St. Augustine
The consolation of philosophy / Boethius
An apology for poetry / Sir Philip Sidney
On the defense of the comedy of Dante / Jacopo Mazzoni
The advancement of learning / Sir Francis Bacon
Mythomystes / Henry Reynolds
Answer to Davenant's preface to Gondibert / Thomas Hobbes
On the three unities of action, time, and place / Pierre Corneille
An essay of dramatic posey / John Dryden
An essay on criticism / Alexander Pope
On the pleasures of imagination / Joseph Addison
On the standard of taste / David Hume
Discourses on art / Sir Joshua Reynolds
Letters on the aesthetic education of man / Friedrich von Schiller
Literature in its relation to social institutions / Germaine Necker de Staël
The four ages of poetry / Thomas Love Peacock
A defense of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley
The philosophy of fine art / Hegel
Symbols / Thomas Carlyle
What is poetry? / John Stuart Mill
The poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a classic? / Sainte-Beuve
The poetic principle / Edgar Allan Poe
The salon of 1859 / Baudelaire
Truth and falsity in an ultramoral sense / Nietzsche
The experimental novel / Zola
The adventures of the soul / Anatole France
The decay of lying / Oscar Wilde
Mystery in literature / Mallarmé
Creative writers and daydreaming / Sigmund Freud
Art as technique / Victor Shklovksy
Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot
Romantic melancholy / Irving Babbutt
On the relation of analytical psychology to poetry / Jung
The formalist school of poetry and Marxism / Leon Trotsky
The theory of the "formal method" / Boris Eichenbaum
Literature and equipment for living / Kenneth Burke
Irony as a principle of structure / Cleanth Brooks
Why write? / Sartre
Art and illusion / Þ.H. Gombrich
Truth and power / Foucault
From one identity to another / Kristeva
The dialetics of poetic tradition / Harold Bloom
Colonistic criticism / Chinua Achebe
Toward feminist poetics / Showalter