The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 1, Classical Criticism

The successful opening volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism is now available for the first time in paperback.

George Alexander Kennedy (Edited by)

9780521300063, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 January 1990

400 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.718 kg

'It is impossible to overemphasize the importance and usefulness of this volume as a vademecum for all serious students of medieval textual production in its multiform evaluation and its complex, ever-changing relationship to larger intellectual, social and cultural norms.' Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and Roman authors, this volume is not only for classicists but for those with no Greek or Latin who are interested in the origins of literary history, theory, and criticism.

1. Early Greek views of poets and poetry Gregory Nagy
2. Language and meaning in Archaic and Classical Greece George A. Kennedy
3. Plato and poetry G. R. F. Ferrari
4. Aristotle's poetics Stephen Halliwell
5. The evolution of a theory of artistic prose George A. Kennedy
6. Hellenistic literary and philosophical scholarship George A. Kennedy and Doreen C. Innes
7. The growth of literature and criticism at Rome Elaine Fantham
8. Augustan critics Doreen C. Innes
9. Latin criticism of the Early Empire Elaine Fantham
10. Greek criticism of the Empire Donald A. Russell
11. Christianity and criticism George A. Kennedy.

Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]