Literary Theory From Plato To Barthes An

This introductory history homes in on the essential principles governing the major movements in literary theory, unfolding a comprehensive 'story' with all its jumps and swings and switches.

Richard Harland is Senior Fellow on the English Program at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Preface

xi

Acknowledgements

xiii

Literary Theory in Classical Times

1

(21)

Rhetorical Criticism

3

(3)

(the Sophists, Aristotle, Demetrius, Cicero, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Quintilian)

Plato

6

(4)

(also the Neo-Platonists)

Aristotle

10

(5)

Horace

15

(3)

Longinus

18

(4)

Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

22

(7)

Allegorical Exegesis

24

(5)

(Porphyry, Proclus, Macrobius, St Paul, St Augustine, Fulgentius, Dante, Boccaccio)

The Rise and Fall of Neoclassicism

29

(31)

The Question of Language

31

(2)

(Dante, du Bellay)

The Idealising Strain

33

(3)

(Giraldi, Sidney)

The Italian Aristotelians

36

(3)

(Minturno, Scaliger, Castelvetro)

Neoclassicism and the Purification of Language

39

(2)

(Montaigne, Malherbe)

French Neoclassical Theory

41

(4)

(Boileau, Bouhours, Rapin, [Pope, Johnson])

The British Version of Neoclassicism

45

(4)

(Jonson, Dryden, Johnson, Addison)

British Theory in the Age of Sensibility

49

(6)

(Johnson, Young, Joseph Warton, Thomas Wharton, Hurd, Edmund Burke)

Vico, Diderot, Lessing

55

(5)

Romantic Literary Theory

60

(21)

Herder and the Spirit of the Time

62

(3)

(also Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel)

The Influence of Kant

65

(4)

(also Schelling, Coleridge, Goethe, Schiller, Schopenhauer)

The Organic Principle

69

(3)

(A. W. Schlegel, Coleridge, Schelling, Goethe)

The Role of the Critic

72

(2)

(Herder, Friedrich Schlegel, Schleiermacher)

Some British Themes

74

(3)

(Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley)

Sainte-Beuve, Emerson, Poe

77

(4)

Social Theories of the 19th Century

81

(15)

Belinsky and the Three Radicals

83

(4)

(Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Pisarev)

Matthew Arnold

87

(3)

The Beginnings of Sociological Criticism: Taine and Marx

90

(6)

Naturalism, Symbolism and Modernism

96

(29)

French Naturalists

98

(5)

(Flaubert, Zola, the Goncourt brothers)

French Symbolists

103

(6)

(Gautier, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Valery)

British Aestheticism and Henry James

109

(4)

(also Pater, Wilde)

Modernism and the Avant-Garde

113

(3)

Hulme and Pound

116

(4)

T.S. Eliot

120

(5)

New Developments in Theory

125

(21)

Nietzsche

125

(5)

Freud

130

(5)

Saussure

135

(2)

Marxism and Literary Theory

137

(9)

(Engels, Lukacs, Benjamin, Brecht, Adorno)

20th-Century Russian Theory

146

(20)

Russian Formalism

146

(7)

(Shklovsky, Eikhenbaum, Tomashevsky, Tynyanov, Jakobson)

Propp

153

(2)

Czech Structuralism

155

(2)

(Mukarovsky)

Bakhtin and his Circle

157

(9)

(also Voloshinov, Medvedev)

Anglo-American Criticism, 1900-60

166

(34)

Richards and Empson

168

(8)

Leavis and the Leavisites

176

(6)

The New Criticism: Southern Phase

182

(2)

(Ransom, Tate)

Kenneth Burke

184

(3)

The New Criticism: Hegemonic Phase

187

(7)

(Brooks, Penn Warren, Wimsatt, Wellek)

Myth Criticism and Northrop Frye

194

(6)

Phenomenological Criticism in France and Germany

200

(19)

Poulet and the Geneva School

201

(3)

From Ingarden to Iser

204

(4)

From Gadamer to Jauss

208

(5)

De Beauvoir and Two Predecessors

213

(6)

(also de Stael, Woolf)

French Structuralism

219

(25)

Paradigmatic Structural Relations

221

(4)

(Jakobson, Levi-Strauss)

Structuralist Narratology

225

(6)

(Greimas, Bremond, Todorov, Barthes)

Structuralism as a Poetics

231

(3)

(Todorov, Barthes)

Barthes

234

(4)

Epilogue: Into the Postmodernist Period

238

(6)

Time Charts

244

(3)

Glossary

247

(17)

Notes

264

(23)

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Literary Theory From Plato To Barthes An Introductory History

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