Critical Theory Since Plato

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ISBN: 9780155055049 | 0155055046
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CRITICAL THEORY SINCE PLATO is a chronologically-arranged anthology that presents a broad survey of the history and development of literary criticism and theory in Western culture. Written by two well-known scholars in the field of literary study, this well-respected text puts an emphasis on the individual contributors to the development of literary criticism, from Plato and Aristotle to the present.

Preface

xix

General Introduction

(620)

Plato

(40)

Ion

(6)

from Republic

(20)

from Phaedrus

(2)

from Sophist

(2)

from Philebus

(1)

from Cratylus

(7)

Aristotle

(26)

from Physics

(2)

from Metaphysics

(1)

Poetics

(17)

from Rhetoric

(5)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

(4)

from Brutus

(3)

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

(8)

Art of Poetry

(7)

Strabo

(4)

from Geography

(3)

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

(4)

from Dialogue on Oratory

(3)

Pseudo-Longinus

(25)

On the Sublime

(24)

Plutarch

119

(5)

from How The Young Man Should Study Poetry

120

(4)

Flavius Philostratus

124

(3)

from Lives of the Sophists

125

(2)

Plotinus

127

(13)

from Enneads

128

(12)

Saint Augustine

140

(7)

from On Christian Doctrine

141

(6)

Anicus Manlius Severinus Boethius

147

(2)

from The Consolation of Philosophy

148

(1)

Saint Thomas Aquinas

149

(4)

from Summa Theologica

150

(3)

Dante Alighieri

153

(4)

from The Banquet

154

(1)

from Letter to Can Grande Della Scala

154

(3)

Giovanni Boccaccio

157

(11)

from Life of Dante

158

(2)

from Genealogy of the Gentile Gods

160

(8)

Julius Caesar Scaliger

168

(8)

from Poetics

169

(7)

Lodovico Castelvetro

176

(9)

from The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and Explained

177

(8)

Sir Philip Sidney

185

(22)

An Apology for Poetry

186

(21)

Giordano Bruno

207

(8)

from Concerning the Cause, the Principle, and the One

208

(7)

Giacopo Mazzoni

215

(11)

from On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante

216

(10)

Torquato Tasso

226

(8)

from Discourses on the Heroic Poem

227

(7)

Sir Francis Bacon

234

(10)

from The Advancement of Learning

235

(1)

Preface to the Wisdom of the Ancients

236

(2)

from The New Organon

238

(6)

Pierre Corneille

244

(9)

Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place

245

(8)

John Dryden

253

(28)

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

254

(27)

John Locke

281

(16)

from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

282

(15)

Alexander Pope

297

(10)

An Essay on Criticism

298

(9)

Joseph Addison

307

(6)

On the Pleasures of the Imagination

308

(5)

Giambattista Vico

313

(9)

from The New Science

314

(8)

David Hume

322

(10)

Of the Standard of Taste

323

(9)

Edmund Burke

332

(15)

from A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

333

(14)

Edward Young

347

(10)

from Conjectures on Original Composition

348

(9)

Samuel Johnson

357

(12)

Rambler, Number 4: On Fiction

358

(2)

from Rasselas

360

(1)

from Preface to Shakespeare

361

(8)

Henry Home, Lord Kames

369

(9)

from Elements of Criticism: Introduction

370

(2)

Chapter XXV

372

(6)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

378

(5)

from Laocoon

379

(4)

Denis Diderot

383

(10)

from The Paradox of Acting

384

(9)

Sir Joshua Reynolds

393

(23)

from Discourses on Art

394

(22)

Immanuel Kant

416

(25)

from Critique of Judgment

419

(22)

Mary Wollstonecraft

441

(6)

from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

442

(5)

William Blake

447

(13)

from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

448

(1)

from Letter to Thomas Butts

448

(1)

from Annotations to Reynolds' Discourses

448

(10)

from A Descriptive Catalogue

458

(1)

from A Vision of the Last Judgment

458

(2)

Friedrich Schiller

460

(13)

from Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man

461

(12)

Friedrich Schlegel

473

(8)

from Critical Fragments (Lyceum Fragments)

474

(3)

from Athenaeum Fragments

477

(3)

from On Incomprehensibility

480

(1)

William Wordsworth

481

(12)

Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads

482

(11)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

493

(30)

Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius

494

(3)

from On the Principles of Genial Criticism

497

(4)

from Biographia Literaria

501

(7)

from Essays on the Principles of Method

508

(11)

from The Statesman's Manual

519

(1)

from On the Constitution of Church and State

519

(4)

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

523

(11)

from Collected Works

524

(10)

John Keats

534

(3)

from Letter to Benjamin Bailey

535

(1)

from Letter to George and Thomas Keats

536

(1)

from Letter to John Taylor

536

(1)

from Letter to Richard Woodhouse

536

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

537

(15)

A Defense of Poetry

538

(14)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

552

(14)

from The Philosophy of Fine Art

553

(8)

from The Phenomenology of Mind

561

(5)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

566

(14)

from The American Scholar

567

(3)

The Poet

570

(10)

Edgar Allan Poe

580

(6)

from The Poetic Principle

581

(5)

Matthew Arnold

586

(18)

The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

587

(12)

from The Study of Poetry

599

(5)

Charles Baudelaire

604

(3)

from The Salon of 1859

604

(3)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

607

(10)

Manifesto of the Communist Party

608

(6)

from The German Ideology

614

(1)

from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

615

(2)

Walter Pater

617

(4)

from Studies in the History of the Renaissance

618

(3)

Introduction: The Modern Era

621

(869)

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine

639

(13)

from History of English Literature

640

(12)

Charles Sanders Peirce

652

(21)

On a New List of Categories (1868)

655

(6)

from Lessons from the History of Philosophy

661

(5)

The First Rule of Reason

666

(1)

from Training in Reasoning

667

(1)

from What Pragmatism Is (1905)

668

(5)

Walt Whitman

673

(13)

from Democratic Vistas (1871)

674

(12)

Friedrich Nietzsche

686

(12)

from The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music

687

(5)

Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense

692

(6)

Emile Zola

698

(13)

from The Experimental Novel

699

(12)

Oscar Wilde

711

(15)

The Decay of Lying

712

(14)

Stephane Mallarme

726

(8)

The Evolution of Literature

727

(2)

The Book: A Spiritual Instrument

729

(2)

Mystery in Literature

731

(3)

Gottlob Frege

734

(12)

On Sense and Meaning

735

(11)

Sigmund Freud

746

(11)

from Letter to Wilhelm Fleiss, October 15, 1897

747

(1)

from Thirteenth Lecture: Archaic and Infantile Features in Dreams

748

(4)

from Lecture Twenty-One: Development of the Libido and Sexual Organization

752

(5)

Leo Tolstoy

757

(13)

What Is Art?

758

(12)

Edmund Husserl

770

(16)

Investigation I: Expression and Meaning

773

(13)

Ferdinand de Saussure

786

(10)

from Course in General Linguistics

787

(9)

Viktor Shklovsky

796

(10)

Art as Technique

797

(9)

T. S. Eliot

806

(5)

Tradition and the Individual Talent

807

(4)

Bertrand Russell

811

(7)

Descriptions

812

(6)

Paul Valery

818

(5)

Leonardo and the Philosophers

819

(4)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

823

(33)

from Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus

825

(11)

from Philosophical Investigations

836

(20)

I. A. Richards

856

(11)

from Principles of Literary Criticism

857

(3)

from Science and Poetry

860

(3)

from Practical Criticism

863

(4)

Boris Eichenbaum

867

(18)

The Theory of the ``Formal Method''

868

(17)

Virginia Woolf

885

(9)

A Room of One's Own

886

(8)

William Empson

894

(18)

from Seven Types of Ambiguity

895

(17)

Mikhail M. Bakhtin

912

(14)

from Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel

913

(13)

Valentin N. Volosinov

926

(10)

Verbal Interaction

926

(10)

Antonio Gramsci

936

(17)

from Prison Notebooks

937

(16)

John Crowe Ransom

953

(11)

Poetry: A Note in Ontology

954

(10)

R. P. Blackmur

964

(14)

A Critic's Job of Work

965

(13)

Rudolph Carnap

978

(12)

The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language

980

(10)

Jacques Lacan

990

(5)

The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience

991

(4)

Walter Benjamin

995

(6)

Theses on the Philosophy of History

996

(5)

William Carlos Williams

1001

(10)

Against the Weather

1002

(9)

Kenneth Burke

1011

(5)

Literature as Equipment for Living

1012

(4)

Ernst Cassirer

1016

(10)

from An Essay on Man

1018

(8)

W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley

1026

(9)

The Intentional Fallacy

1027

(8)

Cleanth Brooks

1035

(16)

The Heresy of Paraphrase

1036

(7)

Irony as a Principle of Structure

1043

(8)

Martin Heidegger

1051

(20)

from Letter on Humanism

1053

(18)

R. S. Crane

1071

(16)

The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks

1072

(15)

M. H. Abrams

1087

(14)

from Orientation of Critical Theories

1087

(14)

Theodor W. Adorno

1101

(18)

Cultural Criticism and Society

1102

(8)

from Negative Dialectics

1110

(9)

Claude Levi-Strauss

1119

(13)

The Structural Study of Myth

1120

(12)

Roman Jakobson

1132

(4)

The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles

1132

(4)

Northrop Frye

1136

(30)

from Anthony of Criticism

1138

(28)

Noam Chomsky

1166

(9)

from A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior

1167

(8)

Jean Paul Sartre

1175

(12)

Marxism and Existentialism

1176

(11)

Frantz Fanon

1187

(16)

On National Culture

1187

(16)

Jacques Derrida

1203

(34)

Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences

1206

(9)

Meaning and Representation

1215

(5)

from Of Grammatology

1220

(17)

Hans Robert Jauss

1237

(18)

from Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory

1238

(17)

Roland Barthes

1255

(4)

The Death of the Author

1256

(3)

Michel Foucault

1259

(21)

What Is an Author?

1260

(9)

Truth and Power

1269

(11)

Thomas S. Kuhn

1280

(17)

from Postscript---1969

1282

(15)

Louis Althusser

1297

(12)

from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

1298

(11)

Paul de Man

1309

(19)

Criticism and Crisis

1310

(7)

The Resistance to Theory

1317

(11)

Clifford Geertz

1328

(15)

Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture

1329

(14)

Mary Louise Pratt

1343

(13)

from Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

1344

(5)

from Chapter Three: The Linguistics of Use

1349

(7)

Raymond Williams

1356

(13)

from Marxism and Literature, Part III

1357

(12)

Edward W. Said

1369

(15)

from Orientalism

1370

(14)

Annette Kolodny

1384

(11)

from Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism

1385

(10)

Stanley Fish

1395

(8)

Is There a Text in This Class?

1396

(7)

Pierre Bourdieu

1403

(14)

from Language and Symbolic Power

1404

(13)

Jean Francois Lyotard

1417

(7)

Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?

1418

(6)

Benedict Anderson

1424

(5)

The Origins of National Consciousness

1424

(5)

Jurgen Habermas

1429

(13)

Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction Between Philosophy and Literature

1430

(12)

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

1442

(15)

Introduction: Rhizome

1443

(14)

Richard Rorty

1457

(12)

The Contingency of Language

1458

(11)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

1469

(7)

from Epistemology of the Closet

1470

(6)

Stephen J. Greenblatt

1476

(13)

Resonance and Wonder

1477

(12)

Judith Butler

1489

(1)

Imitation and Gender Insubordination

1490

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