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A. R. Habib  \n© 2005 by M. A. R. Habib  \nBLACKWELL PUBLISHING  \n350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK  \n550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia  \nThe right of M. A. R. Habib to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher.  \nFirst published 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd  \n1 2005  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nHabib, Rafey.  \nA history of literary criticism: from Plato to the present / M. A. R. Habib. [p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN-13: 978-0-631-23200-1 (hard cover: alk. paper)  \nISBN-10: 0-631-23200-1 (hard cover: alk. paper)  \n1. Criticism—History. I. Title.  \nPN86 .H23 2005  \n801′.95′09—dc22  \n2005004898  \nA catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.  \nSet in 10/12.5pt Minion  \nby Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall  \nThe publisher’s policy is to use permanent paper from mills that operate a sustainable forestry policy, and which has been manufactured from pulp processed using acid-free and elementary chlorine-free practices. Furthermore, the publisher ensures that the text paper and cover board used have met acceptable environmental accreditation standards.  \nFor further information on  \nBlackwell Publishing, visit our website:  \n[www.blackwellpublishing.com](www.blackwellpublishing.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nAcknowledgments viii  \nAbbreviations of Frequently Cited Works ix  \nIntroduction 1  \nPart I Ancient Greek Criticism 7  \nClassical Literary Criticism: Intellectual and Political Backgrounds 9  \n1 Plato (428–ca. 347 bc) 19 2 Aristotle (384–322 bc) 41  \nPart II The Traditions of Rhetoric 63  \n3 Greek Rhetoric 65 Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Lysias, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle  \n4 The Hellenistic Period and Roman Rhetoric 80 Rhetorica, Cicero, Quintilian  \nPart III Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire 103  \n5 Horace (65–8 bc) 105  \n6 Longinus (First Century ad) 118  \n7 Neo-Platonism 129 Plotinus, Macrobius, Boethius  \nPart IV The Medieval Era 149  \n8 The Early Middle Ages 151  \nSt. Augustine  \ncontents  \n9 The Later Middle Ages 166  \nHugh of St. Victor, John of Salisbury, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey de  \nVinsauf, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), St. Thomas Aquinas  \n10 Transitions: Medieval Humanism 215  \nGiovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pisan  \nPart V The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment 227  \n11 The Early Modern Period 229 Giambattista Giraldi, Lodovico Castelvetro, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Sir Philip Sidney, George Gascoigne, George Puttenham  \n12 Neoclassical Literary Criticism 273 Pierre Corneille, Nicolas Boileau, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Samuel Johnson  \n13 The Enlightenment 311 John Locke, Joseph Addison, Giambattista Vico, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft  \nPart VI The Earlier Nineteenth Century and Romanticism 347 Introduction to the Modern Period 349  \n14 The Kantian System and Kant’s Aesthetics 357 15 G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831) 382  \n16 Romanticism (I): Germany and France 408 Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Germaine de Staël  \n17 Romanticism (II): England and America 428 William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe  \nPart VII The Later Nineteenth Century 467  \n18 Realism and Naturalism 469 George Eliot, Émile Zola, William Dean Howells, Henry","cbCaiiBwgld8KatJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiBwgld8KatJ","pdf",7225406,849,"English","# Introduction\n# Part I Ancient Greek Criticism\n## Classical Literary Criticism: Intellectual and Political Backgrounds\n## Plato\n## Aristotle\n# Part II The Traditions of Rhetoric\n## Greek Rhetoric\n## The Hellenistic Period and Roman Rhetoric\n# Part III Greek and Latin Criticism During the Roman Empire\n## Horace\n## Longinus\n## Neo-Platonism\n# Part IV The Medieval Era\n## The Early Middle Ages\n## The Later Middle Ages\n## Transitions: Medieval Humanism\n# Part V The Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment\n## The Early Modern Period\n## Neoclassical Literary Criticism\n## The Enlightenment\n# Part VI The Earlier Nineteenth Century and Romanticism\n## The Kantian System and Kant’s Aesthetics\n## Hegel\n## Romanticism (I): Germany and France\n## Romanticism (II): England and America\n# Part VII The Later Nineteenth Century\n## Realism and Naturalism\n## Symbolism and Aestheticism\n## The Heterological Thinkers\n## Marxism\n# Part VIII The Twentieth Century\n## The Twentieth Century: Backgrounds and Perspectives\n## Psychoanalytic Criticism\n## Formalisms\n## Structuralism\n## Deconstruction\n## Feminist Criticism\n## Reader-Response and Reception Theory\n## Postcolonial Criticism\n## New Historicism\n# Epilogue\n# Selective Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What time periods does the book cover?\",\"answer\":\"It covers literary criticism from ancient Greek thinkers through the twentieth century, moving through medieval, early modern, Enlightenment, nineteenth-century, and modern theoretical traditions.\"},{\"question\":\"Which major criticism frameworks appear in the twentieth-century section?\",\"answer\":\"The twentieth century includes psychoanalytic criticism, formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminist criticism, reader-response and reception theory, postcolonial criticism, and new historicism.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the book focus only on individual authors?\",\"answer\":\"No. It combines author-centered chapters with broader traditions and background contexts, linking critical approaches to intellectual and political settings.\"}]","A History of Literary Criticism - From Plato to the Present | PDF",1789939292,1307]