The theory of criticism : From Plato to the present : A reader

This anthology is a survey of critical theory which integrates contemporary and earlier critical writings into one book. It is divided into five parts covering: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. "The Theory of Criticism" establishes both a sense of the continuities from Plato to the present as well as the discontinuities. These are presented through comparisons and contrasts across the entire field of critical history. With introductory essays and reading lists for each section this should prove valuable reading for students, scholars and critics who wish to familiarize or refamiliarize themselves with aspects of theory. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Dedication Introduction Part I: Representation Chapter 1. Imaginative Representation (A) Plato (B) Plotinus (C) C. W. F. von Schlegel (D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (E) Percy Bysshe Shelley (F) W. B. Yeats (G) R. G. Collingwood (H) Wallace Stevens Chapter 2. Mimesis and Realism (A) Aristotle (B) Emile Zola (C) Erich Auerbach (D) Georg Lukács (E) Bertholt Brecht (F) Alain Robbe-Grillet (G) Roland Barthes Chapter 3. Nature and Truth (A) John Dryden (B) Alexander Pope (C) William Wordsworth (D) Samuel Johnson (E) William Blake Chapter 4. Language and Representation (A) Ben Jonson (B) Francis Bacon (C) Thomas Sprat (D) John Locke (E) Ernst Cassirer (F) Ferdinand de Saussure (G) Ludwig Wittgenstein (H) J. L. Austin Part II: Subjectivity Chapter 1. Wit, Judgement, Fancy and Imagination (A) Thomas Hobbes (B) Joseph Addison (C) Alexander Pope (D) Alexander Gerard (E) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (F) T. E. Hulme (G) I. A. Richards Chapter 2. Genius: Nature vs Art (A) Longinus (B) Joseph Addison (C) Alexander Pope (D) Edward Young (E) William Hazlitt Chapter 3. Emotive Theories (A) Longinus (B) John Dennis (C) Joseph Warton (D) William Wordsworth (E) J. S. Mill (F) I. A. Richards Chapter 4. Subjective Criticism and the Reader's Response (A) Aristotle (B) John Dryden (C) René Rapin (D) G. E. Lessing (E) I. A. Richards (F) William Empson (G) Leo Spitzer (H) Georges Poulet (I) E. D. Hirsch Jr (J) H. R. Jauss (K) Paul Ricoeur (L) Wolfgang Iser (M) Norman Holland (N) David Bleich Chapter 5. Unconscious Processes (A) Sigmund Freud (B) Carl Jung (C) Maud Bodkin (D) Ernest Jones (E) Jacques Lacan (F) Julia Kristeva Part III: Form, System and Structure Chapter 1. The Aesthetic Dimension (A) Immanuel Kant (B) Walter Pater (C) K. J. Huysmans (D) Oscar Wilde (E) Benedetto Croce (F) A. C. Bradley (G) Clive Bell (H) Jan Mukařovský (I) Fredric Jameson Chapter 2. Unity and Literariness (A) Aristotle (B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (C) Viktor Shklovsky (D) T. E. Hulme (E) John Crowe Ransom (F) Allen Tate (G) Cleanth Brooks (H) Mark Scharer Chapter 3. Ambiguity and Polysemy (A) Dante (B) Mikhail Bakhtin (C) William Empson (D) Cleanth Brooks (E) Roland Barthes Chapter 4. Impersonality and the 'Death' of the Author (A) John Keats (B) Ezra Pound (C) T. S. Eliot (D) W. K. Wimsatt (E) Susanne Langer (F) Roland Barthes Chapter 5. Rhetoric: Style and Point of View (A) Cicero (B) George Puttenham (C) Erich Auerbach (D) Richard Ohmann (E) Henry James (F) Wayne C. Booth Chapter 6. Structure and System (A) Plato (B) Aristotle (C) Ferdinand de Saussure (D) Vladimir Propp (E) Northrop Frye (F) A. -J. Greimas (G) Gérard Genette (H) Roman Jakobson (I) David Lodge (J) Jonathan Culler Chapter 7. Structure and Indeterminacy (A) Friedrich Nietzsche (B) Jacques Derrida (C) Paul de Man (D) Geoffrey H. Hartman (E) Barbara Johnson Part IV: History and Society Chapter 1. Tradition and Intertextuality (A) T. S. Eliot (B) E. R. Curtius (C) Raymond Williams (D) Harold Bloom (E) Julia Kristeva Chapter 2. History (A) H. A. Taine (B) Arthur O. Lovejoy (C) E. M. W. Tillyard (D) Raymond Williams (E) Lucien Goldmann (F) Michel Foucault (G) Claudio Guillén Chapter 3. Society (A) John Dennis (B) Karl Marx (C) Walter Benjamin (D) Malcolm Bradbury Chapter 4. Ideology (A) William Blake (B) Friedrich Engels (C) Louis Althusser (D) Pierre Macherey (E) Terry Eagleton Part V: Morality, Class and Gender Chapter 1. Moralism (A) Plato (B) Sir Philip Sidney (C) Samuel Johnson (D) Percy Bysshe Shelley (E) John Ruskin (F) A. A. Zhdanov (G) David Holbrook Chapter 2. Literature and 'Life' (A) Matthew Arnold (B) Henry James (C) D. H. Lawrence (D) F. R. Leavis (E) Lionel Trilling Chapter 3. Class and Gender (A) Richard Hoggart (B) Raymond Williams (C) Francis Mulhern (D) Virginia Woolf (E) Simone de Beauvoir (F) Elaine Showalter (G) Hélène Cixous Index This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. The study of literary theory has tended to concentrate on very recent developments. This volume, however, establishes both a sense of the continuities from Plato to the present day as well as the discontinuities. These are presented through comparisons and contrasts across the entire field of critical history. An anthology of extracts of literary criticism and theory designed to aid readers' understanding of the subject. This survey of critical theory shows both the continuities and discontinuities from Plato up to the present through comparisons and contrasts across the field of critical history. Edited And Introduced By Raman Selden. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 11-12. Antologi om litterær teori og kritik, belyst ved historiske tekststykker