The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism

by: Too, Y.L.

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 The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism traces literary criticism from its origins in archaic Greek poetry through to the earlier Christian era. As well as reading the familiar texts of ancient criticism - Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, amongst others - it shows how ancient law, history and rhetoric participate in the critical process. In response to the question 'what was ancient literary criticism?', the book argues that when Graeco-Roman authors discussed their work they did so from the perspective of maintaining and identifying the political community. Too proposes that ancient material has in turn major implications for how we understand the function of modern criticism and literary theory

Abbreviations viii
Introduction 1 (17)
1. Krisis and Agon: The Etymology of Criticism
18 (33)
2. Criticism in Plato's Republic: Writing the Just City/Just Writing the City
51 (31)
3. Discriminating Pleasures: Aristotle's Poetics and the Civic Spectator
82 (33)
4. Cataloguing Texts: Criticism in the Hellenistic Library
115 (36)
5. From Criticism to Self-Censorship, from Republic to Empire
151 (36)
6. Dislocating States and the Sublimity of Criticism
187 (31)
7. Augustine on Re-inventing the Discourse of Community
218 (35)
8. Criticism in the Present Time?
253 (28)
Conclusion: The Function of Criticism in Times Past and Present 281 (8)
References 289 (17)
Index Locorum 306 (15)
General Index 321

ix, 326 pages ; 23 cm

The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism

by: Too, Y.L.

• ISBN-13: 9780198150763 / 978-0-19-815076-3
• ISBN-03: 0198150768 / 0-19-815076-8
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

Price: 89,00 EURO

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