The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present: A Reader
by Selden,RamanEdition: 1st
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 1988-09-05
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Over recent years interested in literary theory has increased markedly. Theory has become a central part of literary study and this anthology of extracts of literary criticism and theory will be an important aid to understanding this subject.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | |
| Representation | |
| Imaginative Representation | |
| Mimesis and Realism | |
| Nature and Truth | |
| Language and Representation | |
| Subjectivity | |
| Wit Judgement, Fancy and Imagination | |
| Genius, Nature vs Art | |
| Emotive Theories | |
| Subjective criticism and the reader's reponse | |
| Unconscious Processes | |
| Form, System and Structure | |
| The Aesthetic Dimension | |
| Unity and Literariness | |
| Ambiguity and Polysemy | |
| Impersonality and the 'death' of the author | |
| Rhetoric - Style and point of view | |
| Structuree and system | |
| Structure and Indeterminacy | |
| History and Society | |
| Tradition and Intertextuality | |
| History | |
| Literature and 'life' | |
| Class and Gender | |
| Index | |
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