Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present: An Introduction

Part I: Classical literary criticism and rhetoric
1. Classical literary criticism
2. The traditions of rhetoric
3. Greek and Latin criticism during the Roman Empire

Part II: The medieval era
4. The early middle ages
5. The later middle ages

Part III: Early modern period to the enlightenment
6. The early modern period
7. Neoclassical literary criticism
8. The enlightenment
9. The aesthetics of Kant and Hegel

Part IV: Romanticism and the later nineteenth century
10. Romanticism
11. Realism, naturalism, sybolism, and aestheticism
12. The heterological thinkers

Part V: The twentieth century: A brief intorduction
13. From liberal humanism to formalism
14. Socially conscious criticism of the earlier twentieth century
15. Phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism
16. The era of poststructuralism (I) : later Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction
17. The era of poststructuralism (II) : postmodernism, modern feminism, gender studies
18. The later twentieth century : new historicism, reader-response theory, postcolonial criticism, cultural studies