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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ford, Andrew Laughlin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Archaic roots of classical aesthetics
  • pt. 2. The invention of poetry
  • pt. 3. Toward a theory of poetry
  • pt. 4. Literary theory in the fourth century.