The origins of criticism: literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780691120256
- ISBN10 0691120250
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 356
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2004
- Bindung Gebunden
The origins of criticism: literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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. The Origins of Criticism complements the usual, history-of-ideas approach to the topic by treating criticism as a social as well as a theoretical activity. With unprecedented and penetrating detail, Andrew Ford considers varying scholarly interpretations of key texts. Examining Greek discussions of poetry from the late sixth century B.C. through the rise of poetics in the late fourth, he asks when we first can recognize anything like the modern notions of literature as imaginative writing and of literary criticism as a special knowledge of such writing. Serving as a monumental preface to Aristotle's Poetics, this book allows readers to discern the emergence, within the manifold activities that might be called criticism, of the historically specific discourse on poetry that has shaped subsequent Western approaches to literature.