A history of literary criticism :

Habib, Rafey.

A history of literary criticism : from Plato to the present / M.A.R. Habib. - Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2005. - ix, 838 p. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Plato -- Aristotle -- Greek rhetoric -- The Hellenistic period and Roman rhetoric -- Horace -- Longinus -- Neo-platonism -- The early Middle Ages -- The later Middle Ages -- Transitions: mediaeval humanism -- The early modern period -- Neoclassical literary criticism -- The Enlightenment -- The Kantian system and Kant's aesthetics -- G.W.F. Hegel -- Romanticism (i): Germany and France -- Romanticism (ii): England and America -- Realism and naturalism -- Symbolism and aestheticism -- The heterological thinkers -- Marxism -- Psychoanalytic criticism -- Formalisms -- Structuralism -- Deconstruction -- Feminist criticism -- Reader-response and reception theory -- Postcolonial criticism -- New historicism.

9780631232001 (hard cover) 0631232001 (hard cover) 9781405176088 (pbk)

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Criticism--History.

PN86 .H23 2005