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- catalog abstract ""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 stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliteracy era of ancient Greece. He pinpoints when and how, later in the Greek tradition than is usually assumed, poetry was studied as a discipline with its own principles and methods." "Serving as a monumental preface to Aristotle's Poetics, this book allows readers to discern the emergence, within the manifold activities that might be called criticism, of the historically specific discourse on poetry that has shaped subsequent Western approaches to literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12546014.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""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 stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliteracy era of ancient Greece. He pinpoints when and how, later in the Greek tradition than is usually assumed, poetry was studied as a discipline with its own principles and methods." "Serving as a monumental preface to Aristotle's Poetics, this book allows readers to discern the emergence, within the manifold activities that might be called criticism, of the historically specific discourse on poetry that has shaped subsequent Western approaches to literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-330) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Part I. Archaic roots of classical aesthetics -- Part II. The invention of poetry -- Part III. Toward a theory of poetry -- Part IV. Literary theory in the fourth century.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 356 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Origins of criticism.".
- catalog identifier "0691074852 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691120250 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Origins of criticism.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng grc".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog relation "Origins of criticism.".
- catalog spatial "Greece".
- catalog subject "880.9/001 21".
- catalog subject "Criticism Greece History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Criticism Greece History To 500.".
- catalog subject "Greek literature History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Literature History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Literature Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "PA35 .F67 2002".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric, Ancient.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Archaic roots of classical aesthetics -- Part II. The invention of poetry -- Part III. Toward a theory of poetry -- Part IV. Literary theory in the fourth century.".
- catalog title "The origins of criticism : literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece / Andrew Ford.".
- catalog type "text".