The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance

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George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton
Cambridge University Press, 1989 - 782 страници
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 neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.
 

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Theories of language
25
Renaissance exegesis
36
Evangelism and Erasmus
44
The assimilation of Aristotles Poetics in sixteenthcentury
53
commentators into critics
66
Cicero and Quintilian
77
POETICS
86
Latin writers
98
TudorStuart London
339
Lyons and Paris
348
Culture imperialism and humanist criticism in the Italian
355
Germanspeaking centres and institutions
364
Courts and patronage
371
literary salons in seventeenthcentury
378
Renaissance printing and the book trade
384
The Ciceronian controversy
395

writers
107
Petrarchan poetics
119
from Italy
127
Invention
136
Rhetorical poetics
145
Second rhetoric and the grands rhétoriqueurs
155
art literature and illusion
161
ut pictura poesis
168
Conceptions of style
176
Sir Philip Sidneys An apology for poetry
187
the conception
199
Literary forms
205
The lyric
216
Renaissance theatre and the theory of tragedy
229
Elizabethan theatrical genres and literary theory
248
moral sense
259
Dialogue and discussion in the Renaissance
265
The essay as criticism
271
The genres of epigram and emblem
278
Humour and satire in the Renaissance
284
15581700
295
Theories of prose fiction in sixteenthcentury France
305
novella
322
Vives and Ramus
402
The rise of the vernaculars
409
France
417
Women as auctores in early modern Europe
426
Renaissance Neoplatonism
435
Cosmography and poetics
442
Natural philosophy and the new science
449
philosophical revival
458
Calvinism and postTridentine developments
466
PortRoyal and Jansenism
475
Jonson Milton and classical literary
487
The rhetorical ideal in France
500
Cartesian aesthetics
511
probability decorum taste
522
Longinus and the Sublime
529
classical
543
French criticism in the seventeenth century
555
Literarycritical developments in sixteenth
566
The Germanspeaking countries
591
The Low Countries
600
Bibliography
607
Index
669
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