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This book is a guide to the history of literary criticism fromantiquity to the present day. It not only provides an overview ofthe major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, butalso supplies the cultural, historical, and philosophicalbackground which enables students to see them in context. The organization of the book is broadly chronological. Startingwith a comprehensive section on classical literary criticism, itshows how the central philosophical principles of Plato andAristotle not only underlie their specific comments on literature,but also lay out the foundations and categories of much subsequentWestern thought. Similarly, for each subsequent period, the bookcombines back ground information, whether on the philosophy ofLocke, the history of the French Revolution, the political theoriesof Marx and Engels, or Freud's views on civilization withy coverageof the major figures and texts of literary-critical thought.

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Author

M. A. R. Habib, Rafey Habib

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Limited

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780470752142

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.93 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14