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Criticism: Major Statements

by Charles Kaplan (Editor), William Anderson (Editor)

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This enduring anthology is the only one to encompass the historic sweep of literary criticism — from Plato to the present — in a compact and affordable format.

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Aristotle (Contributor)

Arnold, Matthew (Contributor)

Bakhtin, Mikhail (Contributor)

Barthes, Roland (Contributor)

Baym, Nina (Contributor)

Bhabha, Homi K. (Contributor)

Brooks, Cleanth (Contributor)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (Contributor)

Dante Alighieri (Contributor)

Derrida, Jacques (Contributor)

Dryden, John (Contributor)

Eagleton, Terry (Contributor)

Eco, Umberto (Contributor)

Eliot, T. S. (Contributor)

Felman, Shoshana (Contributor)

Fish, Stanley (Contributor)

Foucault, Michel (Contributor)

Freud, Sigmund (Contributor)

Frye, Northrop (Contributor)

Gates Jr., Henry Louis (Contributor)

Gilbert, Sandra M. (Contributor)

Greenblatt, Stephen (Contributor)

Gubar, Susan (Contributor)

Horace (Contributor)

James, Henry (Contributor)

Johnson, Barbara (Contributor)

Johnson, Samuel (Contributor)

Kant, Immanuel (Contributor)

Keats, John (Contributor)

Landlow, George P. (Contributor)

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Marx, Karl (Contributor)

Nietzsche, Friedrich (Contributor)

Pater, Walter (Contributor)

Plato (Contributor)

Pope, Alexander (Contributor)

Ransom, John Crowe (Contributor)

Rich, Adrenne (Contributor)

Sedgewisk, Eve Kosofsky (Contributor)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (Contributor)

Showalter, Elaine (Contributor)

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Woolf, Virginia (Contributor)

Wordsworth, William (Contributor)

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Canonical title: Criticism: Major Statements
Original publication date: 1964
People/Characters: Plato; Aristotle; Longinus; Horace; Dante Alighieri; Sir Philip Sidney (show all 46); John Dryden; Alexander Pope; Samuel Johnson; Immanuel Kant; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; John Keats; Karl Marx; Friedrich Nietzsche; Matthew Arnold; Walter Pater; Henry James; Oscar Wilde; Leo Tolstoy; Sigmund Freud; T. S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf; Mikhail Bakhtin; John Crowe Ransom; Cleanth Brooks; Northrop Frye; Roland Barthes; Jacques Derrida; Adrienne Rich; Terry Eagleton; Michel Foucault; Paul de Man; Stanley Fish; Nina Baym; Umberto Eco; Elaine Showalter; Stephen Greenblatt; Barbara Johnson; Shoshana Felman; Sandra M. Gilbert; Susan Gubar; Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; George P. Landow; Homi K. Bhabha
Important events: Classical Antiquity; Middle Ages; Renaissance; English Renaissance; Enlightenment; Romanticism (show all 8); Modernism; Postmodernism

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Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 801.95 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Philosophy and theory Nature and character Literary theory and criticism
LCC: PN81 .C85 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Criticism
BISAC: LIT LITERARY CRITICISM General

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Languages: English
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Published: 1964
Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 801.95
LCC: PN81 .C85

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