The idea of ancient literary criticism / Yun Lee Too
| Author(s): | Too, Yun Lee |
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| Subjects: | Classical literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc Criticism--Greece--History Criticism--Rome--History |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New York : Clarendon Press, 1998 |
| LC Classification: | P, PA |
| Table of Contents: | Abbreviations Introduction 1 1. Krisis and Agon: The Etymology of Criticism 18 2. Criticism in Plato's Republic: Writing the Just City/Just Writing the City 51 3. Discriminating Pleasures: Aristotle's Poetics and the Civic Spectator 82 4. Cataloguing Texts: Criticism in the Hellenistic Library 115 5. From Criticism to Self-Censorship, from Republic to Empire 151 6. Dislocating States and the Sublimity of Criticism 187 7. Augustine on Re-inventing the Discourse of Community 218 8. Criticism in the Present Time? 253 Conclusion: The Function of Criticism in Times Past and Present 281 References 289 Index Locorum 306 General Index 321 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 98008001 ISBN: 0198150768 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | ix, 326 p. ;lc23 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 39130699 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0198150768 |