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The origins of criticism : literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece /
By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should--if, that is, we wish to unde...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should--if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from. Andrew Ford offers a new understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. He pinpoints |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 356 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-330) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1400825067 9781400825066 0691120250 9780691120256 1282157124 9781282157125 9786612157127 6612157127 |