The Origins of Criticism : Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece /

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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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Main Author: Ford, Andrew Laughlin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociale aspecten.
Theorie.
Griekse oudheid.
Dichtkunst.
Literatuurkritiek.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Literature > Theory, etc.
Literature > Philosophy.
Criticism.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Poesie > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Litterature > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Poesie grecque > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Rhetorique ancienne.
Philosophie ancienne.
Litterature grecque > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Greek poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism > Greece > History > To 1500.
Poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Greek literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Greece.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (376 pages).
ISBN:9781400825066

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