Literary criticism; a short history [by] William K. Wimsatt, Jr. & Cleanth Brooks.
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TextPublication details: New York, Knopf, 1957Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 755 p. illus. 24 cmISBN: 9788120417625Subject(s): Criticism -- History | Literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 801 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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pt. 1. Socrates and the rhapsode --
Aristotle's answer: poetry as structure --
Aristotle: tragedy and comedy --
The verbal medium: Plato and Aristotle --
Roman classicism: Horace --
Roman classicism: Longinus --
The neo-Platonic conclusion: Plotinus and some medieval themes --
pt. 2. Further medieval themes --
The sixteenth century --
English neo-classicism: Jonson and Dryden --
Dryden and some later seventeenth-century themes --
Rhetoric and neo-classic wit --
Addison and Lessing: poetry as pictures --
Genius, emotion, and association --
The neo-classic universal: Samuel Johnson --
pt. 3. Poetic diction: Wordsworth and Coleridge --
German ideas --
Imagination: Wordsworth and Coleridge --
Peacock vs. Shelley: rhapsodic didacticism --
The Arnoldian prophecy --
The real and the social: art as propaganda --
Art for art's sake --
Expressionism: Benedetto Croce --
The historical method: a retrospect --
pt. 4. Tragedy and comedy: the internal focus --
Symbolism --
I.A. Richards: a poetics of tension --
The semantic principle --
Eliot and Pound: an impersonal art --
Fiction and drama: the gross structure --
Myth and archetype --
pt. 5. Epilogue.
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