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A History of Literary Criticism
From Plato to the Present
M. A. R. Habib (Author)
9780631232001, Wiley
Hardback, published 25 August 2005
848 pages
25.5 x 18.2 x 5.1 cm, 1.588 kg
Winner of a 2006 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award “[A] magnificently comprehensive history of literary criticism. Authoritative, formidable, generous and compassionate … Habib's achievements are many, but two stand out. The first is the putting of theory into historical perspective and the second is to make connections between criticism and philosophy.” "This is a book to be read cover to cover, and those who undertake that happy task will be better informed. They will understand the twin pillars of Western civilization, Hellenism and the Judaic Christian ethic. They will understand the intersections of philosophy, literature, and religion. They will understand Plato, Aristotle, the Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the three great thinkers who forever shifted thought at the beginning of the 20th century: Marx, Freud, and Darwin. Dividing the discussion into eight chronological sections, from ancient Greece to the 20th century, Habib (English, Rutgers Univ.) discusses each period in detail, exploring major critical figures and their works in a way that illuminates, rather than exhausts, the issues they are concerned with. His explorations entice one to read more, and that is the best kind of criticism. Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels." "Philosophically sophisticated and full of fascinating connections and distinctions ...a monumental achievement." “Rafey Habib's History of Literary Criticism, with its substantial grounding in classical texts and its excellent coverage of contemporary criticism and theory, is certain to be as highly regarded as Wimsatt and Brooks' Literary Criticism: A Short History. Habib's lucidity and wit will also make his book highly teachable.” "This huge undertaking offers a comprehensive, expository and lucid account - including close readings of selected formative texts - of the history of literary criticism and theory from the earliest western classics to influential contemporary movements, while also embedding these in their broader social, cultural and philosophical contexts. A major resource - as narrative or as compendium - for students at all levels." "Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, Habib traces how the study of literature evolved in the West. His strength lies in his short segments, which allow readers to absorb the major thoughts of the critics and movements without being overwhelmed. While the book runs nearly 900 pages, it is easy to maneuver. All told, Habib delivers an accessible yet scholarly survey of literary criticism." “A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present by M. A. R. Habib is a useful introduction and quick reference … The attention to each writer and their major works is significant and detailed, with major historical interpretive shifts noted.” “Best single-volume introduction to Western literary theory … .With its admirably clear explanation of concepts and terminology, [it] admirably fulfils the promise of its title.”
Times Higher Education Supplement
CHOICE
Ron Bush, University of Oxford
Michael Payne, Bucknell University
Peter Widdowson, University of Gloucestershire
Ron Ratliff, Kansas State University
Studies in English Literature 1500 - 1900
Literary Research Guide"Habib's survey of literary theory and criticism is serious, ambitious, informative and intellectually challenging." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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.
Acknowledgments viii Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works ix Introduction 1 Part I Ancient Greek Criticism 7 Classical Literary Criticism: Intellectual and Political Backgrounds 9 1 Plato (428–ca. 347 bc) 19 2 Aristotle (384–322 bc) 41 Part II The Traditions of Rhetoric 63 3 Greek Rhetoric 65 4 The Hellenistic Period and Roman Rhetoric 80 Part III Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire 103 5 Horace (65–8 bc) 105 6 Longinus (First Century ad) 118 7 Neo-Platonism 129 Part IV The Medieval Era 149 8 The Early Middle Ages 151 St. Augustine 9 The Later Middle Ages 166 10 Transitions: Medieval Humanism 215 Part V The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment 227 11 The Early Modern Period 229 12 Neoclassical Literary Criticism 273 13 The Enlightenment 311 Part VI The Earlier Nineteenth Century and Romanticism 347 Introduction to the Modern Period 349 14 The Kantian System and Kant’s Aesthetics 357 15 G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831) 382 16 Romanticism (I): Germany and France 408 17 Romanticism (II): England and America 428 Part VII The Later Nineteenth Century 467 18 Realism and Naturalism 469 19 Symbolism and Aestheticism 489 20 The Heterological Thinkers 502 21 Marxism 527 Part VIII The Twentieth Century 555 The Twentieth Century: Backgrounds and Perspectives 557 22 Psychoanalytic Criticism 571 23 Formalisms 602 24 Structuralism 631 25 Deconstruction 649 26 Feminist Criticism 667 27 Reader-Response and Reception Theory 708 28 Postcolonial Criticism 737 29 New Historicism 760 Epilogue 772 Selective Bibliography 777 Index 791
Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Lysias, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle
Rhetorica, Cicero, Quintilian
Plotinus, Macrobius, Boethius
Hugh of St. Victor, John of Salisbury, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), St. Thomas Aquinas
Giovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan
Giambattista Giraldi, Lodovico Castelvetro, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Sir Philip Sidney, George Gascoigne, George Puttenham
Pierre Corneille, Nicolas Boileau, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Samuel Johnson
John Locke, Joseph Addison, Giambattista Vico, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft
Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Germaine de Staël
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe
George Eliot, Émile Zola, William Dean Howells, Henry James
Charles Baudelaire, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde
Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Matthew Arnold
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, György Lukács, Terry Eagleton
Freud and Lacan
Victor Shklovsky, Boris Eichenbaum, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roman Jakobson, John Crowe Ransom, William K. Wimsatt, Monroe C. Beardsley, T. S. Eliot
Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes
Jacques Derrida
Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elaine Showalter, Michèle Barrett, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous
Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish
Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Stephen Greenblatt, Michel Foucault
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
