LITERARY THEORY FROM PLATO TO BARTHES AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORYPDF电子书下载

1 Literary Theory in Classical Times 1

Rhetorical Criticism(the Sophists,Aristotle,Demetrius,Cicero,Dionysius of Halicarnassus,Quintilian) 3

Plato(also theNeo-Platonists) 6

Aristotle 10

Horace 15

Longnus 18

2 Literary Theory in the Middle Ages 22

Allegorical Exegesis(Porphyry,Proclus,Macrobius,St Paul,St Augustine,Fulgentius,Dante,Boccaccio) 24

3 The Rise and Fall of Neoclassicism 29

The Question of Language(Dante,du Bellay) 31

The Idealising Strain(Giraldi,Sidney) 33

The Italian Aristotelians(Minturno,Scaliger,Castelvetro) 36

Neoclassicism and the Purification of Language(Montaigne,Malherbe) 39

French Neoclassical Theory(Boileau,Bouhours,Rapin,[Pope,Johnson]) 41

The British Version of Neoclassicism(Jonson,Dryden,Johnson,Addison) 45

British Theory in the Age of Sensibility(Johnson,Young,Joseph Warton,Thomas Warton,Hurd,Edmund Burke) 49

Vico,Diderot,Lessing 55

4 Romantic Literary Theory 60

Herder and the Spirit of the Time(also Schiller,Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel) 62

The Influence of Kant(also Schelling,Coleridge,Goethe,Schiller,Schopenhauer) 65

The Organic Principle(A.W.Schlegel,Coleridge,Schelling,Goethe) 69

The Role of the Critic(Herder,Friedrich Schlegel,Schleiermacher) 72

Some British Themes(Wordsworth,Coleridge,Keats,Shelley) 74

Sainte-Beuve,Emerson,Poe 77

5 Social Theories of the 19th Century 81

Belinsky and the Three Radicals(Belinsky,Chernyshevsky,Dobrolyubov,Pisarev) 83

MatthewArnold 87

The Beginnings of Sociological Criticism:Taine and Marx 90

6 Naturalism,Symbolism and Modernism 96

French Naturalists(Flaubert,Zola,the Goncourt brothers) 98

French Symbolists(Gautier,Baudelaire,Mallarmé,Valéry) 103

British Aestheticism and Henry James(also Pater,Wilde) 109

Modernism and theAvant-Garde 113

Hulme and Pound 116

T.S.Eliot 120

7 New Developments in Theory 125

Nietzsche 125

Freud 130

Saussure 135

Marxism and Literary Theory(Engels,Lukács,Benjamin,Brecht,Adorno) 137

8 20th-Century Russian Theory 146

Russian Formalism(Shklovsky,Eikhenbaum,Tomashevsky,Tynyanov,Jakobson) 146

Propp 153

Czech Structuralism(Mukarovsky) 155

Bakhtin and his Circle(also Voloshinov,Medvedev) 157

9 Anglo-American Criticism,1900-60 166

Richards and Empson 168

Leavis and the Leavisites 176

The New Criticism:Southern Phase(Ransom,Tate) 182

KennethBurke 184

The New Criticism:Hegemonic Phase(Brooks,Penn Warren,Wimsatt,Wellek) 187

Myth Criticism and Northrop Frye 194

10 Phenomenological Criticism in France and Germany 200

Poulet and the Geneva School 201

From Ingarden to Iser 204

From Gadamer to Jauss 208

De Beauvoir and Two Predecessors(also de Staёl,Woolf) 213

11 French Structuralism 219

Paradigmatic Structural Relations(Jakobson,Lévi-Strauss) 221

Structuralist Narratology(Greimas,Bremond,Todorov,Barthes) 225

Structuralism as a Poetics(Todorov,Barthes) 231

Barthes 234

Epilogue:Into the Postmodernist Period 238

Time Charts 244

Glossary 247

Notes 264

Further Reading 287

Index 293