Critical Theory Since Plato

by Adams, Hazard; Searle, Leroy

• ISBN13: 9780155055049
• ISBN10: 0155055046
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-09
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

CRITICAL THEORY SINCE PLATO is a chronologically-arranged anthology that presents a broad survey of the history and development of literary criticism and theory in Western culture. Written by two well-known scholars in the field of literary study, this well-respected text puts an emphasis on the individual contributors to the development of literary criticism, from Plato and Aristotle to the present.

Table of Contents

Preface	xix
General Introduction	1	(620)
Plato	8	(40)
Ion	10	(6)
from Republic	16	(20)
from Phaedrus	36	(2)
from Sophist	38	(2)
from Philebus	40	(1)
from Cratylus	41	(7)
Aristotle	48	(26)
from Physics	49	(2)
from Metaphysics	51	(1)
Poetics	52	(17)
from Rhetoric	69	(5)
Marcus Tullius Cicero	74	(4)
from Brutus	75	(3)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)	78	(8)
Art of Poetry	79	(7)
Strabo	86	(4)
from Geography	87	(3)
Publius Cornelius Tacitus	90	(4)
from Dialogue on Oratory	91	(3)
Pseudo-Longinus	94	(25)
On the Sublime	95	(24)
Plutarch	119	(5)
from How The Young Man Should Study Poetry	120	(4)
Flavius Philostratus	124	(3)
from Lives of the Sophists	125	(2)
Plotinus	127	(13)
from Enneads	128	(12)
Saint Augustine	140	(7)
from On Christian Doctrine	141	(6)
Anicus Manlius Severinus Boethius	147	(2)
from The Consolation of Philosophy	148	(1)
Saint Thomas Aquinas	149	(4)
from Summa Theologica	150	(3)
Dante Alighieri	153	(4)
from The Banquet	154	(1)
from Letter to Can Grande Della Scala	154	(3)
Giovanni Boccaccio	157	(11)
from Life of Dante	158	(2)
from Genealogy of the Gentile Gods	160	(8)
Julius Caesar Scaliger	168	(8)
from Poetics	169	(7)
Lodovico Castelvetro	176	(9)
from The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and Explained	177	(8)
Sir Philip Sidney	185	(22)
An Apology for Poetry	186	(21)
Giordano Bruno	207	(8)
from Concerning the Cause, the Principle, and the One	208	(7)
Giacopo Mazzoni	215	(11)
from On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante	216	(10)
Torquato Tasso	226	(8)
from Discourses on the Heroic Poem	227	(7)
Sir Francis Bacon	234	(10)
from The Advancement of Learning	235	(1)
Preface to the Wisdom of the Ancients	236	(2)
from The New Organon	238	(6)
Pierre Corneille	244	(9)
Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place	245	(8)
John Dryden	253	(28)
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy	254	(27)
John Locke	281	(16)
from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	282	(15)
Alexander Pope	297	(10)
An Essay on Criticism	298	(9)
Joseph Addison	307	(6)
On the Pleasures of the Imagination	308	(5)
Giambattista Vico	313	(9)
from The New Science	314	(8)
David Hume	322	(10)
Of the Standard of Taste	323	(9)
Edmund Burke	332	(15)
from A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful	333	(14)
Edward Young	347	(10)
from Conjectures on Original Composition	348	(9)
Samuel Johnson	357	(12)
Rambler, Number 4: On Fiction	358	(2)
from Rasselas	360	(1)
from Preface to Shakespeare	361	(8)
Henry Home, Lord Kames	369	(9)
from Elements of Criticism: Introduction	370	(2)
Chapter XXV	372	(6)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	378	(5)
from Laocoon	379	(4)
Denis Diderot	383	(10)
from The Paradox of Acting	384	(9)
Sir Joshua Reynolds	393	(23)
from Discourses on Art	394	(22)
Immanuel Kant	416	(25)
from Critique of Judgment	419	(22)
Mary Wollstonecraft	441	(6)
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	442	(5)
William Blake	447	(13)
from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	448	(1)
from Letter to Thomas Butts	448	(1)
from Annotations to Reynolds' Discourses	448	(10)
from A Descriptive Catalogue	458	(1)
from A Vision of the Last Judgment	458	(2)
Friedrich Schiller	460	(13)
from Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man	461	(12)
Friedrich Schlegel	473	(8)
from Critical Fragments (Lyceum Fragments)	474	(3)
from Athenaeum Fragments	477	(3)
from On Incomprehensibility	480	(1)
William Wordsworth	481	(12)
Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads	482	(11)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	493	(30)
Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius	494	(3)
from On the Principles of Genial Criticism	497	(4)
from Biographia Literaria	501	(7)
from Essays on the Principles of Method	508	(11)
from The Statesman's Manual	519	(1)
from On the Constitution of Church and State	519	(4)
Wilhelm Von Humboldt	523	(11)
from Collected Works	524	(10)
John Keats	534	(3)
from Letter to Benjamin Bailey	535	(1)
from Letter to George and Thomas Keats	536	(1)
from Letter to John Taylor	536	(1)
from Letter to Richard Woodhouse	536	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley	537	(15)
A Defense of Poetry	538	(14)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	552	(14)
from The Philosophy of Fine Art	553	(8)
from The Phenomenology of Mind	561	(5)
Ralph Waldo Emerson	566	(14)
from The American Scholar	567	(3)
The Poet	570	(10)
Edgar Allan Poe	580	(6)
from The Poetic Principle	581	(5)
Matthew Arnold	586	(18)
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time	587	(12)
from The Study of Poetry	599	(5)
Charles Baudelaire	604	(3)
from The Salon of 1859	604	(3)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels	607	(10)
Manifesto of the Communist Party	608	(6)
from The German Ideology	614	(1)
from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy	615	(2)
Walter Pater	617	(4)
from Studies in the History of the Renaissance	618	(3)
Introduction: The Modern Era	621	(869)
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine	639	(13)
from History of English Literature	640	(12)
Charles Sanders Peirce	652	(21)
On a New List of Categories (1868)	655	(6)
from Lessons from the History of Philosophy	661	(5)
The First Rule of Reason	666	(1)
from Training in Reasoning	667	(1)
from What Pragmatism Is (1905)	668	(5)
Walt Whitman	673	(13)
from Democratic Vistas (1871)	674	(12)
Friedrich Nietzsche	686	(12)
from The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music	687	(5)
Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense	692	(6)
Emile Zola	698	(13)
from The Experimental Novel	699	(12)
Oscar Wilde	711	(15)
The Decay of Lying	712	(14)
Stephane Mallarme	726	(8)
The Evolution of Literature	727	(2)
The Book: A Spiritual Instrument	729	(2)
Mystery in Literature	731	(3)
Gottlob Frege	734	(12)
On Sense and Meaning	735	(11)
Sigmund Freud	746	(11)
from Letter to Wilhelm Fleiss, October 15, 1897	747	(1)
from Thirteenth Lecture: Archaic and Infantile Features in Dreams	748	(4)
from Lecture Twenty-One: Development of the Libido and Sexual Organization	752	(5)
Leo Tolstoy	757	(13)
What Is Art?	758	(12)
Edmund Husserl	770	(16)
Investigation I: Expression and Meaning	773	(13)
Ferdinand de Saussure	786	(10)
from Course in General Linguistics	787	(9)
Viktor Shklovsky	796	(10)
Art as Technique	797	(9)
T. S. Eliot	806	(5)
Tradition and the Individual Talent	807	(4)
Bertrand Russell	811	(7)
Descriptions	812	(6)
Paul Valery	818	(5)
Leonardo and the Philosophers	819	(4)
Ludwig Wittgenstein	823	(33)
from Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus	825	(11)
from Philosophical Investigations	836	(20)
I. A. Richards	856	(11)
from Principles of Literary Criticism	857	(3)
from Science and Poetry	860	(3)
from Practical Criticism	863	(4)
Boris Eichenbaum	867	(18)
The Theory of the ``Formal Method''	868	(17)
Virginia Woolf	885	(9)
A Room of One's Own	886	(8)
William Empson	894	(18)
from Seven Types of Ambiguity	895	(17)
Mikhail M. Bakhtin	912	(14)
from Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel	913	(13)
Valentin N. Volosinov	926	(10)
Verbal Interaction	926	(10)
Antonio Gramsci	936	(17)
from Prison Notebooks	937	(16)
John Crowe Ransom	953	(11)
Poetry: A Note in Ontology	954	(10)
R. P. Blackmur	964	(14)
A Critic's Job of Work	965	(13)
Rudolph Carnap	978	(12)
The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language	980	(10)
Jacques Lacan	990	(5)
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience	991	(4)
Walter Benjamin	995	(6)
Theses on the Philosophy of History	996	(5)
William Carlos Williams	1001	(10)
Against the Weather	1002	(9)
Kenneth Burke	1011	(5)
Literature as Equipment for Living	1012	(4)
Ernst Cassirer	1016	(10)
from An Essay on Man	1018	(8)
W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley	1026	(9)
The Intentional Fallacy	1027	(8)
Cleanth Brooks	1035	(16)
The Heresy of Paraphrase	1036	(7)
Irony as a Principle of Structure	1043	(8)
Martin Heidegger	1051	(20)
from Letter on Humanism	1053	(18)
R. S. Crane	1071	(16)
The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks	1072	(15)
M. H. Abrams	1087	(14)
from Orientation of Critical Theories	1087	(14)
Theodor W. Adorno	1101	(18)
Cultural Criticism and Society	1102	(8)
from Negative Dialectics	1110	(9)
Claude Levi-Strauss	1119	(13)
The Structural Study of Myth	1120	(12)
Roman Jakobson	1132	(4)
The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles	1132	(4)
Northrop Frye	1136	(30)
from Anthony of Criticism	1138	(28)
Noam Chomsky	1166	(9)
from A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior	1167	(8)
Jean Paul Sartre	1175	(12)
Marxism and Existentialism	1176	(11)
Frantz Fanon	1187	(16)
On National Culture	1187	(16)
Jacques Derrida	1203	(34)
Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences	1206	(9)
Meaning and Representation	1215	(5)
from Of Grammatology	1220	(17)
Hans Robert Jauss	1237	(18)
from Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory	1238	(17)
Roland Barthes	1255	(4)
The Death of the Author	1256	(3)
Michel Foucault	1259	(21)
What Is an Author?	1260	(9)
Truth and Power	1269	(11)
Thomas S. Kuhn	1280	(17)
from Postscript---1969	1282	(15)
Louis Althusser	1297	(12)
from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses	1298	(11)
Paul de Man	1309	(19)
Criticism and Crisis	1310	(7)
The Resistance to Theory	1317	(11)
Clifford Geertz	1328	(15)
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture	1329	(14)
Mary Louise Pratt	1343	(13)
from Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse	1344	(5)
from Chapter Three: The Linguistics of Use	1349	(7)
Raymond Williams	1356	(13)
from Marxism and Literature, Part III	1357	(12)
Edward W. Said	1369	(15)
from Orientalism	1370	(14)
Annette Kolodny	1384	(11)
from Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism	1385	(10)
Stanley Fish	1395	(8)
Is There a Text in This Class?	1396	(7)
Pierre Bourdieu	1403	(14)
from Language and Symbolic Power	1404	(13)
Jean Francois Lyotard	1417	(7)
Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?	1418	(6)
Benedict Anderson	1424	(5)
The Origins of National Consciousness	1424	(5)
Jurgen Habermas	1429	(13)
Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction Between Philosophy and Literature	1430	(12)
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari	1442	(15)
Introduction: Rhizome	1443	(14)
Richard Rorty	1457	(12)
The Contingency of Language	1458	(11)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick	1469	(7)
from Epistemology of the Closet	1470	(6)
Stephen J. Greenblatt	1476	(13)
Resonance and Wonder	1477	(12)
Judith Butler	1489	(1)
Imitation and Gender Insubordination	1490