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

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

Ford, Andrew

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0691120250
ISBN13: 9780691120256
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Aug 8 2004
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

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 preliterary 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.


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