Alternative Table of Contents xxi
Preface xxxiii
Acknowledgments xxxvii
Introduction to Theory and Criticism 1 (28)
Gorgias of Leontini (ca. 483-376 B.C.E.) 29 (4)
From Encomium of Helen 30 (3)
Plato (ca. 427-ca. 347 B.C.E.) 33 (53)
Ion 37 (12)
Republic 49 (32)
From Book II 49 (7)
From Book III 56 (8)
From Book VII 64 (3)
From Book X 67 (14)
From Phaedrus 81 (5)
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) 86 (35)
Poetics 90 (27)
Rhetoric 117 (4)
Book I 117 (1)
From Chapter 2 117 (1)
From Chapter 3 118 (1)
Book II 119 (1)
From Chapter 1 119 (1)
Book III 120 (1)
From Chapter 2 120 (1)
Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) 121 (14)
Ars Poetica 124 (11)
Longinus (first century C.E.) 135 (20)
From On Sublimity 138 (17)
Quintilian (ca. 30/35-ca. 100) 155 (16)
Institutio Oratoria 157 (14)
Book 8 157 (1)
From Chapter 5 157 (1)
From Chapter 6 158 (4)
Book 9 162 (1)
From Chapter 1 162 (4)
From Chapter 2 166 (1)
Book 12 167 (1)
From Chapter 2 167 (4)
Plotinus (ca. 204/5-270) 171 (14)
Fifth Ennead 174 (11)
Eighth Tractate. On the Intellectual 174 (11)
Beauty
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) 185 (11)
On Christian Doctrine 188 (4)
From Book One 188 (1)
From Book Two 188 (3)
From Book Three 191 (1)
The Trinity 192 (4)
Book Fifteen 192 (1)
From Chapter 9 192 (1)
From Chapter 10 193 (1)
From Chapter 11 194 (2)
Macrobius (b. ca. 360) 196 (5)
Commentary on the Dream of Scipio 198 (3)
Chapter III 198 (3)
Hugh of St. Victor (ca. 1097-1141) 201 (10)
The Didascalicon 204 (7)
From Book One 204 (2)
From Book Three 206 (1)
From Book Five 207 (1)
From Book Six 208 (3)
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) 211 (15)
The Guide of the Perplexed 214 (12)
[Introduction to the First Part] 214 (12)
Geoffrey of Vinsauf (ca. 1200) 226 (14)
Poetria Nova 229 (11)
General Remarks on Poetry/Divisions of 229 (1)
the Present Treatise
Ordering the Material 230 (1)
Amplification and Abbreviation 231 (5)
Ornaments of Style 236 (4)
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) 240 (6)
Summa Theologica 243 (3)
From Question I 243 (3)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) 246 (7)
II Convivio 249 (2)
Book Two 249 (1)
Chapter 1 249 (2)
From The Letter to Can Grande 251 (2)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) 253 (10)
Genealogy of the Gentile Gods 255 (8)
Book 14 255 (1)
Other Cavillers at the Poets and Their 255 (3)
Imputations
The Definition of Poetry, Its Origin, and 258 (2)
Function
The Obscurity of Poetry Is Not Just Cause 260 (3)
for Condemning It
Christine De Pizan (ca. 1365-ca. 1429) 263 (8)
The Book of the City of Ladies 265 (6)
From Part One 265 (4)
From Part Two 269 (2)
Giambattista Giraldi (1504-1573) 271 (8)
From Discourse on the Composition of 273 (6)
Romances
Joachim Du Bellay (ca. 1522-1560) 279 (12)
The Defence and Illustration of the French 281 (10)
Language
Book I 281 (1)
Chapter I-VII 281 (7)
Book II 288 (1)
Chapters III-IV 288 (3)
Pierre De Ronsard (1524-1585) 291 (8)
From A Brief on the Art of French Poetry 294 (5)
Giacopo Mazzoni (1548-1598) 299 (24)
On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante 302 (21)
From Introduction and Summary 302 (21)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) 323 (40)
An Apology for Poetry 326 (37)
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) 363 (16)
Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and 367 (12)
Place
John Dryden (1631-1700) 379 (9)
From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 381 (2)
From Preface to Troilus and Cressida 383 (2)
From Preface to Sylvae 385 (3)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) 388 (11)
The Dutch Lover 391 (4)
Epistle to the Reader 391 (4)
Preface to The Lucky Chance 395 (4)
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) 399 (17)
From The New Science 401 (15)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) 416 (10)
The Spectator, No. 62 419 (4)
[True and False Wit] 419 (4)
The Spectator, No. 412 423 (3)
[On the Sublime] 423 (3)
Edward Young (1683-1765) 426 (12)
From Conjectures on Original Composition 427 (11)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) 438 (20)
An Essay on Criticism 441 (17)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) 458 (25)
The Rambler, No. 4 462 (4)
[On Fiction] 462 (4)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia 466 (2)
Imlac's History Continued. A Dissertation 466 (2)
upon Poetry
From Preface to Shakespeare 468 (12)
Lives of the English Poets 480 (3)
From Cowley 480 (1)
[On Metaphysical Wit] 480 (3)
David Hume (1711-1776) 483 (16)
Of the Standard of Taste 486 (13)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) 499 (37)
Critique of Judgment 504 (32)
Introduction 504 (1)
Analytic of the Beautiful 505 (14)
Analytic of the Sublime 519 (17)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) 536 (15)
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of 539 (12)
Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Introduction on Taste 539 (10)
Part I. Section VII. Of the Sublime 549 (1)
Part III. Section XXVII. The Sublime and 550 (1)
Beautiful Compared
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) 551 (20)
From Laocoon 554 (17)
Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805) 571 (11)
On the Aesthetic Education of Man 573 (9)
Second Letter 573 (1)
Sixth Letter 574 (5)
Ninth Letter 579 (3)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) 582 (12)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 586 (8)
The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual 586 (8)
Character Discussed
Germaine Necker De Stael (1766-1817) 594 (16)
From Essay on Fictions 597 (7)
On Literature Considered in Its 604 (6)
Relationship to Social Institutions
On Women Writers (2.4) 604 (6)
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) 610 (16)
Hermeneutics 613 (13)
Outline of the 1819 Lectures 613 (1)
Introduction 613 (10)
Part Two. The Technical Interpretation 623 (3)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) 626 (19)
Phenomenology of Spirit 630 (6)
[The Master-Slave Dialectic] 630 (6)
Lectures on Fine Art 636 (9)
From Introduction 636 (9)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 645 (23)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral 648 (20)
and Other Poems (1802)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 668 (14)
From The Statesman's Manual 672 (2)
Biographia Literaria 674 (8)
Part I 674 (1)
From Chapter 1 674 (1)
From Chapter 4 675 (1)
From Chapter 13 676 (1)
Part II 677 (1)
Chapter 14 677 (5)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) 682 (13)
The Four Ages of Poetry 684 (11)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 695 (22)
From A Defence of Poetry, or Remarks 699 (18)
Suggested by an Essay Entitled ``The Four
Ages of Poetry''
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 717 (22)
From The American Scholar 721 (3)
The Poet 724 (15)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 739 (11)
The Philosophy of Composition 742 (8)
Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) 750 (9)
From Preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin 753 (6)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1818-1883) 759 (30)
(1820-1895)
From Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts 764 (3)
of 1844
From The German Ideology 767 (2)
From The Communist Manifesto 769 (4)
From Grundrisse 773 (1)
From Preface to A Contribution to the 774 (2)
Critique of Political Economy
Capital, Volume 1 776 (11)
Commodities 776 (7)
The Working-Day 783 (4)
From Letter from Friedrich Engels to Joseph 787 (2)
Bloch
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) 789 (13)
The Painter of Modern Life 792 (10)
From I. Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness 792 (1)
From III. The Artist, Man of the World, 793 (3)
Man of the Crowd, and Child
IV. Modernity 796 (2)
From IX. The Dandy 798 (2)
XI. In Praise of Cosmetics 800 (2)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) 802 (31)
The Function of Criticism at the Present 806 (19)
Time
Culture and Anarchy 825 (8)
Sweetness and Light 825 (8)
Walter Pater (1839-1894) 833 (8)
Studies in the History of the Renaissance 835 (6)
Preface 835 (4)
Conclusion 839 (2)
Stephane Mallerme (1842-1898) 841 (10)
Crisis in Poetry 845 (6)
Henry James (1843-1916) 851 (19)
The Art of Fiction 855 (15)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 870 (25)
On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense 874 (10)
From The Birth of Tragedy 884 (11)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 895 (18)
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 899 (1)
From the Critic as Artist 900 (13)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) 913 (43)
The Interpretation of Dreams 919 (10)
The Material and Sources of Dreams 919 (4)
The Dream-Work 923 (6)
The ``Uncanny'' 929 (23)
Fetishism 952 (4)
Ferdinand De Saussure (1857-1913) 956 (21)
Course in General Lin
Vincent B. Leitch is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma where he holds the Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Chair in English. A foremost historian of contemporary literary criticism and theory, he is the author of the standard history, American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s as well as Deconstructive Criticism and Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (all three books published by Columbia UP), Postmodernism: Local Effects, Global Flows (SUNY Press), Theory Matters (Routledge), Living with Theory (Blackwell), and American Literary Criticism since the 1930s, 2nd edition (Routledge).
William E. Cain is the Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. A scholar of American literature and American literary criticism, Professor Cain is the author of The Crisis in Criticism: Theory, Literature, and Reform in English Studies (Johns Hopkins UP), F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of Criticism (U of Wisconsin Press), and Literary Criticism, 1900-1950: The Cambridge History of American Literature (Cambridge UP) as well as the editor or co-editor of several college textbooks, including An Introduction to Literature (Longman), American Literature (Penguin), The Little, Brown Reader (Longman), and Literature for Composition (Longman).
Laurie A. Finke is Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Kenyon College. A prominent medievalist and feminist critic, Professor Finke is the author of Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film (Johns Hopkins UP), King Arthur and the Myth of History (University Press of Florida), Feminist Theory, Women’s Writing (Cornell UP) and Women’s Writing in English: The Middle Ages (Longman) and the editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Cornell UP).
Barbara E. Johnson was the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. She was a leading figure in contemporary literary theory and the author of The Critical Difference: Essays in Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading (Johns Hopkins UP), A World of Difference (Johns Hopkins UP), The Wake of Deconstruction (Blackwell), The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychology, Race and Gender (Harvard UP), Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation (Harvard UP), and Persons and Things (Harvard UP). She was also the translator of Jacques Derrida’s Dissemination (U of Chicago P) and Stéphane Mallarmé’s Divagations (Harvard UP/Belknap Press).
John McGowan is the Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A leading critic of postmodernism and social theories relating to literature, he is the author of Postmodernism and its Critics (Cornell UP), Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction (U of Minnesota P), Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Cornell UP), and American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time (UNC Press), and editor (with Craig Calhoun) of Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (U of Minnesota P).
