M A R Habib

A History of Literary Criticism

From Plato to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day. It not only provides an overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, but also supplies the cultural, historical, and philosophical background which enables students to see them in context. The organization of the book is broadly chronological. Starting with a comprehensive section on classical literary criticism, it shows how the central philosophical principles of Plato and Aristotle not only underlie their specific comments on literature, but also lay out the foundations and categories of much subsequent Western thought. Similarly, for each subsequent period, the book combines back ground information, whether on the philosophy of Locke, the history of the French Revolution, the political theories of Marx and Engels, or Freud's views on civilization withy coverage of the major figures and texts of literary-critical thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 848
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 181mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1610g
• ISBN-13: 9780631232001
• ISBN-10: 0631232001
• Artikelnr.: 21266512

Autorenporträt

M.A.R. Habib is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. He received his D.Phil. in English from Oxford University, and is the author of five books, including Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History (Blackwell, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works.

Introduction.

Part I: Ancient Greek Criticism.

1. Plato (428-ca. 347 BC).

2. Aristotle (348-322 BC).

Part II: The Traditions of Rhetoric.

3. Greek Rhetoric (Protagoras, Gorgias, Antihon, Lysias,Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle).

4. The Hellenistic Period and Roman Rhetoric. (Rhetorica,Cicero, Quintilian).

Part III: Greek and Latin Criticism During the RomanEmpire.

5. Horace (65-8 BC).

6. Longinus (First Century AD).

7. Neo-Platonism. (Plotinus, Macrobius, Boethius).

Part IV: The Medieval Era.

8. The Early Middle Ages (St. Augustine).

9. The Later Middle Ages (Hugh of St. Victor, John of Salisbury,Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey de Hugh of St. Victor, John of Salisbury,Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey de Vinsauf, IBN Rushd (Averroe), St.Thomas Aquinas).

10. Transitions: Medieval Humanism (Giovanni Boccaccio,Christine de Pisan).

Part V: The Early Modern Period to the Enlightment.

11. The Early Modern Period (Giambattista Giraldi, LodovicoCastelvetro, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, Joachim Du Bellay,Pierre de Ronsard, Sir Philip Sidney, Torquato Tasso, Joachim DuBellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Sir Philip Sidney, George Gascoigne,George Puttenham).

12. Neoclassical Literary Criticism (Pierre Corneille, NicolasBoileau, John Dryden, Aleancer Pope, Aphra Behn, SamuelJohnson).

13. The Enlightenment (John Locke, Joseph Addison, GiambattistaVico, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft).

Part VI: The Earlier Nineteenth Century andRomanticism.

14. The Kantian System and Kant's Aesthetics.

15. G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831).

16. Romanticism (I): Germany and France (Friedrich von Schiller,Friedrich Schleiermacher, Germaine de Stael).

17. Romanticism (II): England and America (William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe).

Part VII: The Later Nineteenth Century.

18. Realism and Naturalism (George Eliot, Emile Zola, WilliamDean Howells, Henry James).

19. Symbolism and Aestheticism (Charles Baudelaire, WalterPater, Oscar Wilde).

20. The Heterological Thinkers (Arthur Schopenhauer, FriedrichNietzsche, Henri Bergson, Matthew Arnold).

21. Marxism (Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Gyorgy Lukacs, TerryEaglelton).

Part VIII: The Twentieth Century.

22. Psychoanalytic Criticism (Freud and Lacan).

23. Formalisms (Victor Shklovsky, Boris Eichenbaum, MikhailBakhtin, Roman Jakobson, John Crowe Ransom, William K. Wimsatt,Monroe C. Beardsley, T. S. Eliot).

24. Structuralism (Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes).

25. Deconstruction (Jacques Derrida).

26. Feminist Criticism (Virginai Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir,Elaine Showalter, Michele Barrett, Julia Kristeva, HeleneCixous).

27. Reader-Response and Reception Theory (Edmund Husserl, MartinHeidegger, Hans Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish).

28. Postcolonial Criticism (Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, GayatriChakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Henry Loui Gate, Jr.).

29. New Historicism (Stephen Greenblatt, Michel Foucault).

Epilogue.

Selective Bibliography.

Index

Rezensionen

Winner of a 2006 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

"[A] magnificently comprehensive history of literarycriticism. Authoritative, formidable, generous and compassionate... Habib's achievements are many, but two stand out. The firstis the putting of theory into historical perspective and the secondis to make connections between criticism andphilosophy."
Times Higher Education Supplement

"This is a book to be read cover to cover, and those whoundertake that happy task will be better informed. They willunderstand the twin pillars of Western civilization, Hellenism andthe Judaic Christian ethic. They will understand the intersectionsof philosophy, literature, and religion. They will understandPlato, Aristotle, the Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, and thethree great thinkers who forever shifted thought at the beginningof the 20th century: Marx, Freud, and Darwin. Dividing thediscussion into eight chronological sections, from ancient Greeceto the 20th century, Habib (English, Rutgers Univ.) discusses eachperiod in detail, exploring major critical figures and their worksin a way that illuminates, rather than exhausts, the issues theyare concerned with. His explorations entice one to read more, andthat is the best kind of criticism. Summing Up: Essential. Allreaders; all levels."
CHOICE

"Philosophically sophisticated and full of fascinatingconnections and distinctions ...a monumental achievement."
Ron Bush, University of Oxford

"Rafey Habib's History of Literary Criticism, withits substantial grounding in classical texts and its excellentcoverage of contemporary criticism and theory, is certain to be ashighly regarded as Wimsatt and Brooks' Literary Criticism: AShort History. Habib's lucidity and wit will also make his bookhighly teachable."
Michael Payne, Bucknell University

"This huge undertaking offers a comprehensive, expository andlucid account - including close readings of selected formativetexts - of the history of literary criticism and theory from theearliest western classics to influential contemporary movements,while also embedding these in their broader social, cultural andphilosophical contexts. A major resource - as narrative or ascompendium - for students at all levels."
Peter Widdowson, University of Gloucestershire

"Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, Habib traces how the studyof literature evolved in the West. His strength lies in his shortsegments, which allow readers to absorb the major thoughts of thecritics and movements without being overwhelmed. While the bookruns nearly 900 pages, it is easy to maneuver. All told, Habibdelivers an accessible yet scholarly survey of literarycriticism."
Ron Ratliff, Kansas State University

"A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to thePresent by M. A. R. Habib is a useful introduction and quickreference ... The attention to each writer and their majorworks is significant and detailed, with major historicalinterpretive shifts noted."
Studies in English Literature 1500 - 1900

"Best single-volume introduction to Western literarytheory ... .With its admirably clear explanation of conceptsand terminology, [it] admirably fulfils the promise of itstitle."
Literary Research Guide"Habib's survey of literary theoryand criticism is serious, ambitious, informative and intellectuallychallenging." Bryn Mawr Classical Review