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Literary Criticism: A Short History, 4-Volume Set

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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.

Author(s): William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Cleanth Brooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022

Language: English
Pages: 850
City: London

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Volume 1
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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
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Dedication
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Introduction
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
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Dedication
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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
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Dedication
Introduction
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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