The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece

by Andrew Laughlin Ford

Book Overview

By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should--if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from. Andrew Ford offers a new understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691120250
• ISBN13: 9780691120256
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"