The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.

Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and Roman authors

This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figur

This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its n

Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the