First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.

Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical theories, but also in vital dialectic with the creative literature of its own time.

Volume Two focuses on Neo-Classical criticism and covers Medieval themes, the Sixteenth Century, English Neo-Classicism, late seventeenth-century themes, rhetoric and Neo-Classic wit, poetry as pictures, genius, emotion, and association, and Samuel Johnson.

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Routledge

Year

2021

eBook ISBN

9781000333190

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Topic

Literature

Subtopic

European Literary Collections

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Literature

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PAGE NUMBERS GIVING THE MORE SIGNIFICANT DISCUSSIONS OF EACH ENTRY ARE SET IN ITALICS.

Abelard, Peter 72, 74
Abelson, Paul 142
Abercrombie, Lascelles 519
Abrams, Meyer H. 354, 49-91 536, 637
Académie de Poésie et de Musique 271
Académie Française 265, 441
Academy (Plato) 66, 81, 192
Accademia della Crusca 441
Accademia Pontaniana 500
Action (in fiction and drama) 687-92. see also Plot
Adams, Henry 126
Adams, J. Donald 697
Addison, Joseph 106, 199, 202, 206, 214, 232, 238, 252-62, 269, 284, 286-8, 292-4, 299, 303-4, 308, 325, 328, 342, 361, 381, 385, 441, 547, 727, 752; his Cato 206; “false wit,” “mixt wit” 232, 256; pleasures of the imagination 257, 261, 381; the sublime 286, 294; perfection vs. genius 287-8; tragedy 292-4
Ad Herennium 102, 109, 143-4
Adler, Mortimer 332
Aeschylus 4, 41, 48, 50, 267, 562-3, 649, 734
Aesthetic (aesthetics, art, beauty) 113-35, 139-41, 147, 256-65, 274-8, 284, 297-309, 316-23, 331-6, 369-80, 385, 390-404, 418-24, 455-73, 475-98, 499-519, 584-6, 611-20, 631-2, 699-708; Plodnian 113-23 Augustinian and Thomist 123-31; in Joyce 132-5; of number...

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Introduction
Table of Contents
Neo Classical Criticism
Index

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