Literary criticism from Plato to postmodernism : the humanistic alternative /

This book offers a history of literary criticism from Plato to the present, arguing that this history can best be seen as a dialogue among three traditions, the Platonic, Neoplatonic and the humanistic, originated by Aristotle. There are many histories of literary criticism, but this is the first to...

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Main Author: Seaton, James, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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505 0 |a Introduction; 1. Plato and neoplatonism; 2. Romanticism and modernism; 3. Theory and cultural studies; 4. Aristotle and the humanistic tradition; 5. Edmund Wilson and Lionel Trilling; 6. Democracy, popular culture, and Ralph Ellison; 7. Literary criticism, the humanities, and liberal education. 
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