From Plato to Post-modernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and the Role of the Author
Compilation by Louis Markos
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- 1.Thinking Theoretically
- 2.Plato — Kicking Out the Poets
- 3.Aristotle's Poetics — Mimesis and Plot
- 4.Aristotle's Poetics — Character and Catharsis
- 5.Horace's Ars Poetica
- 6.Longinus on the Sublime
- 7.Sidney's "Apology for Poetry"
- 8.Dryden, Pope, and Decorum
- 9.Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful
- 10.Kant's Critique of Judgment
- 11.Schiller on Aesthetics
- 12.Hegel and the Journey of the Idea
- 13.Wordsworth, Coleridge, and British Romanticism
- 14.Mr. Wordsworth's "Preface"
- 15.Coleridge — Transcendental Philosopher
- 16.Shelley's Defense of Poetry
- 17.The Function of Criticism — Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot
- 18.The Status of Poetry — I.A. Richards and John Crowe Ransom
- 19.Heresies and Fallacies — W.K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks
- 20.Archetypal Theory — Saint Paul to Northrop Frye
- 21.Origins of Modernism
- 22.Structuralism — Ferdinand de Saussure to Michel Foucault
- 23.Jacques Derrida on Deconstruction
- 24.Varieties of Post-Modernism