Literary criticism : a new history / Gary Day.
Literary criticism : a new history / Gary Day.
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.
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N801.95/152
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English
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viii, 344 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Greeks and Romans -- 2. Medieval criticism -- 3. English Renaissance criticism -- 4. English Enlightenment and early Romantic criticism -- 5. English Romantic, moral and aesthetic criticism -- 6. Institutionalising English criticism : men of letters, modernism, tradition and theory.
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Publisher
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
Scotland
Date Published
c2008.
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"How many people know that Aristotle thought the best tragedies were those which ended happily? Or that the first mention of the motor car in literature may have been in 1791 in Boswell's Life of Johnson? Or that it was not unknown in the nineteenth century for book reviews to be 30,000 words long!" "These are just a few of the facts to be found in...
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Literary criticism : a new history / Gary Day.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-334) and index.
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c2008.
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N801.95/152
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74VMbJPNAKdg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMbJPNAKdg
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9780748615636 (hbk.)
0748615636 (hbk.)
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801.95
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991000741679702626
