Literary Criticism : A Short History / William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Cleanth Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wimsatt, William K., Jr., author.

Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (922 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world. Comprising four volumes, books in this series cover Classical criticism, Neo-Classical criticism, Romantic criticism, and Modern criticism. Each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical theories, but also in vital dialectic with the creative literature of its own time.

Contents:

Cover

Volume 1

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

Contents

Part I: Classical Criticism

1. Socrates and the Rhapsode

2. Aristotle's Answer: Poetry as Structure

3. Aristotle: Tragedy and Comedy

4. The Verbal Medium: Plato and Aristotle

5. Roman Classicism: Horace

6. Roman Classicism: Longinus

7. The Neo-Platonic Conclusion: Plotinus and Some Medieval Themes

Volume 2

Part II: Neo Classical Criticism

8. Further Medieval Themes

9. The Sixteenth Century

10. English Neo-Classicism: Jonson and Dryden

11. Dryden and Some Later Seventeenth-Century Themes

12. Rhetoric and Neo-Classic Wit

13. Addison and Lessing: Poetry as Pictures

14. Genius, Emotion, and Association

15. The Neo-Classic Universal: Samuel Johnson

Volume 3

Part III: Romantic Criticism

16. Poetic Diction: Wordsworth and Coleridge

17. German Ideas

18. Imagination: Wordsworth and Coleridge

19. Peacock vs. Shelley: Rhapsodic Didacticism

20. The Arnoldian Prophecy

21. The Real and the Social: Art as Propaganda

22. Art for Art's Sake

23. Expressionism: Benedetto Croce

24. The Historical Method: A Retrospect

Volume 4

Part IV: Modern Criticism

25. Tragedy and Comedy: The Internal Focus

26. Symbolism

27. I. A. Richards: A Poetics of Tension

28. The Semantic Principle

29. Eliot and Pound: An Impersonal Art

30. Fiction and Drama: The Gross Structure

31. Myth and Archetype

Part V

32. Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-80685-5