The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present - A Reader

The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present - A Reader - Oxon Routledge 2016 - 560p

Part: I Representation
1. Imaginative Representation
2. Mimesis and Realism
3. Nature and Truth
4. Language and Representation

Part II: Subjectivity
1. Wit Judgement, Fancy and Imagination
2. Genius, Nature vs Art
3. Emotive Theories
4 Subjective criticisms and the reader's response
5. Unconscious Processes

Part III: Form, System and Structure
1. The Aesthetic Dimension
2. Unity and Literariness
3. Ambiguity and Polysemy
4. Impersonality and the 'death' of the author
5. Rhetoric - Style and point of view
6. Structure and system
7. Structure and Indeterminacy

Part IV: History and Society
1. Tradition and Intertextuality
2. History
3. Literature and 'life'
4. Class and Gender

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Criticism - History

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