The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts And Contemporary Trends 3rd Ed.

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This bestseller balances a comprehensive and up-to-date anthology of major documents in literary criticism and theory -- from Plato to the present -- with the most thorough editorial support for understanding these challenging readings.

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  • Year: 2,006

  • Edition: Third Edition

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  • Language: English

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  • Toc: Akatsuki Scans Insert......Page 0Textbook Cover......Page 1Preface ......Page 6Contents......Page 18Introduction ......Page 32Part One - Classic Texts In Literary Criticism ......Page 54Plato ......Page 56Republic, Book X ......Page 61Ion ......Page 69From Phaedrus ......Page 77Leo Tolstoy......Page 81From What Is Art? ......Page 83Aristotle ......Page 86From Poetics ......Page 90Horace ......Page 113The Art of Poetry ......Page 115Longinus ......Page 126From On the Sublime ......Page 128Plotinus ......Page 140On the Intellectual Beauty ......Page 142Dante Alighieri ......Page 151From Letter to Can Grande della Scala ......Page 152Christine de Pisan ......Page 155From La Querelle de la Rose ......Page 157Sir Philip Sidney ......Page 163An Apology for Poetry ......Page 166John Dryden......Page 191From An Essay of Dramatic Poetry ......Page 194Aphra Behn......Page 220An Epistle to the Reader from The Dutch Lover ......Page 223Preface to The Lucky Chance ......Page 226Alexander Pope ......Page 229An Essay On Criticism ......Page 230Samuel Johnson ......Page 241Of the Standard of Taste ......Page 265The Rambler, No.4 ......Page 243Rasselas, Chapter 10 ......Page 246From Preface to Shakespeare ......Page 247David Hume ......Page 262From Contingencies of Value ......Page 276Immanuel Kant ......Page 278From Critique of Judgment ......Page 282Mary Wollstonecraft ......Page 306From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ......Page 308Germaine de Stael ......Page 316From Essay on Fictions......Page 318On Women Writers......Page 324Friedrich von Schiller......Page 329From On Naive and Sentimental Poetry ......Page 331William Wordsworth......Page 335Preface to Lyrical Ballads......Page 337Samuel Taylor Coleridge......Page 350Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius......Page 354From Biographica Literaria......Page 356John Keats ......Page 361From a Letter to Benjamin Bailey......Page 362From a Letter to George and Thomas Keats......Page 364Thomas Love Peacock......Page 365The Four Ages of Poetry......Page 366Percy Bysshe Shelley......Page 375A Defence of Poetry......Page 377The Romantic Artist from Culture and Society 1780-1950......Page 395Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel......Page 400Introduction to the Philosophy of Art......Page 404Ralph Waldo Emerson......Page 415The Poet......Page 416Karl Marx......Page 428<