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

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - 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. -- The Origins of Criticism complements the usual, history-of-ideas approach to the topic precisely by treating criticism as a social as well as a theoretical activity. With unprece -- dented and penetrating detail, Ford considers varying scholarly interpretations of the key texts discussed. Examining Greek discussions of poetry from the late sixth century B.C. through the rise of poetics in the late fourth, he asks when we first can recognize anything like the modern notions of literature as imaginative writing and of literary criticism as a special knowledge of such writing. -- 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. - CONTENTS -- Defining Criticism from Homer to Aristotle -- PART I: ARCHAIC ROOTS OF CLASSICAL AESTHETICS -- ONE -- Table Talk and Symposium -- TWO -- Xenophanes and the �Ancient Quarrel� -- THREE -- Allegory and the Traditions of Epic Interpretation -- PART II: THE INVENTION OF POETRY -- FOUR -- Song and Artifact: Simonidean Monuments -- FIVE -- Singer and Craftsman in Pindar and Bacchylides -- SIX -- The Origin of the Word �Poet� -- PART III: TOWARD A THEORY OF POETRY -- SEVEN -- Materialist Poetics: Democritus and Gorgias -- EIGHT -- Literary Culture and Democracy: Poets and Teach� in Classical Athens -- NINE -- Literary Culture in Plato�s Republic: The Sound of Ideology -- PART IV: LITERARY THEORY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY -- TEN -- The Invention of Literature: Theories of Prose and the -- Theory of Poetry -- ELEVEN -- Laws of Poetry: Genre and the Literary System -- TWELVE -- The Rise of the Critic: Poetic Contests from Homer to Aristotle.