1st Edition
The Theory of Criticism From Plato to the Present: A Reader
By Raman Selden
Copyright 1988
576 Pages
by
Routledge
576 Pages
by
Routledge
This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. The study of literary theory has tended to concentrate on very recent developments. This volume, however, establishes both a... Read more
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 - 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 criticism and the reader's reponse 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. Structuree 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 Index
Biography
Raman Selden
