The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 1, Classical CriticismGeorge Alexander Kennedy Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism focuses on criticism in the Classical period up to about A.D. 325. This first survey examines the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece, including the functions of poetry and the role of poets in early Greek society, and continues with authoritative discussion of the critical writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic scholars. It examines Roman figures including Horace, Cicero, Quintilian and Tacitus, and also considers Greek critics of the Augustan and imperial periods such as Longinus, and the neo-platonic, Christian and grammatical writers of later antiquity. |
Contents
Early Greek views of poets and poetry | 3 |
1 Poetry myth and ritual | 4 |
2 Poetry and song | 6 |
3 Occasion and authority | 10 |
4 The poet as artisan | 20 |
5 Poetry and inspiration | 26 |
6 Myth truth and panHellenic poetics | 31 |
7 The poet as author | 37 |
3 Neoptolemus of Parium | 206 |
4 The Peripatetics and biographical criticism | 207 |
6 The criticism of the Stoics | 212 |
7 Epicurean language theory | 216 |
8 Philodemus | 217 |
The growth of literature and criticism at Rome | 222 |
2 Plautus and Terence | 225 |
3 Lucilius | 229 |
8 The poetics of singing | 41 |
9 Mimesis | 49 |
10 The singer as author | 54 |
11 Iambic and comic poets as critics | 65 |
12 Poetry as education | 71 |
Language and meaning in Archaic and Classical Greece | 80 |
2 Sophistry | 84 |
3 Allegorical interpretation | 87 |
Platos Cratylus | 88 |
5 The oral and the written word | 89 |
6 Aristotle on interpretation and topics | 91 |
Plato and poetry | 94 |
2 Poetry and the professors | 101 |
3 The Dionysian chorus | 105 |
a poetic training | 110 |
poetry overcome | 122 |
6 Plato as poet | 143 |
Aristotles poetics | 151 |
2 Theoretical components of the Poetics | 153 |
3 Aristotle on tragedy | 167 |
4 Aristotle on epic | 177 |
5 Aristotle on comedy | 181 |
The evolution of a theory of artistic prose | 186 |
1 Sophists and rhetorical handbooks | 187 |
3 Plato on rhetoric | 190 |
4 Aristotles Rhetoric | 192 |
5 Theophrastus | 196 |
6 Demetrius On Style | 198 |
7 Hellenistic rhetoric | 200 |
Hellenistic literary and philosophical scholarship | 202 |
1 The Alexandrian Museum and Library | 203 |
5 Ciceros dialogue On the Orator | 232 |
6 Ciceros Brutus and Orator | 237 |
5 Grammatical scholarship in the Late Republic | 243 |
Augustan critics | 247 |
1 Tradition originality and the Callimachean legacy in Latin poetry | 248 |
2 Horace | 256 |
3 Dionysius of Halicarnassus | 269 |
4 Minor figures | 274 |
Latin criticism of the Early Empire | 276 |
1 Velleius Paterculus and Seneca the Elder | 277 |
2 Seneca the Younger and Petronius | 281 |
3 Tacitus Dialogus | 284 |
4 Quintilian | 288 |
5 Pliny the Younger and Juvenal | 293 |
6 Fronto and Gellius | 295 |
Greek criticism of the Empire | 299 |
1 Dio of Prusa | 301 |
2 Plutarch | 304 |
3 Longinus on sublimity | 308 |
4 Lucian and Philostratus | 313 |
5 Hermogenes and other rhetoricians | 316 |
6 Allegorical interpretation | 322 |
7 NeoPlatonic interpretation | 324 |
Christianity and criticism | 332 |
2 The synthesis of Classical and Christian culture | 338 |
3 Late Latin secular criticism | 342 |
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 1, Classical Criticism George Alexander Kennedy No preview available - 1990 |
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 1, Classical Criticism George Alexander Kennedy No preview available - 1990 |
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 1, Classical Criticism George Alexander Kennedy No preview available - 1990 |
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