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v. 1. Classical criticism / edited by George A. Kennedy (c1989) -- v. 2. The Middle Ages / edited by Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson (c2005) -- v. 3. The Renaissance / edited by Glyn P. Norton (c1999) -- v. 4. The eighteenth century / edited by H.B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson (c1997) -- v. 5. Romantic...

v. 1. Classical criticism. 1. Early Greek views of poets and poetry / Gregory Nagy -- 2. Language and meaning in Archaic and Classical Greece / George A. Kennedy -- 3. Plato and poetry / G.R.F. Ferrari -- 4. Aristotle's poetics / Stephen Halliwell -- 5. The evolution of a theory of artistic prose /...

v. 2. The Middle Ages. I. The liberal arts and the arts of Latin textuality. 1. Grammatica and literary theory / Martin Irvine with David Thomson -- 2. The arts of poetry and prose / J.J. Murphy -- 3. The arts of letter-writing / Ronald G. Witt -- 4. The arts of preaching / Siegfried Wenzel. -- II....

v. 3. The Renaissance. [I] Reading and interpretation : an emerging discourse of poetics. 1. Theories of language / Richard Waswo -- 2. Renaissance exegesis / Michel Jeanneret -- 3. Evangelism and Erasmus / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle -- 4. The assimilation of Aristotle's Poetics in sixteenth-century It...

v. 4. The eighteenth century. [I]. Introduction : criticism and tradition. 1. The institution of criticism in the eighteenth century / Douglas Lane Patey -- 2. Ancients and moderns / Douglas Lane Patey. -- [II]. Genres. 3. Poetry, 1660-1740 / James Sambrook -- 4. Poetry, after 1740 / William Keach -...

v. 5. Romanticism. 1. Classical standards in the period / Paul H. Fry -- 2. Innovation and modernity / Alfredo De Paz (trans. Albert Sbragia) -- 3. The French revolution / David Simpson -- 4. Transcendental philosophy and romantic criticism / 5. Nature / Helmut J. Schneider -- 6. Scientific models /...

v. 6. The nineteenth century, c. 1830-1914. I. Literary criticism as an institution. 1. Contexts and conditions of criticism 1830-1914 / Joanne Shattock -- 2. Literary studies and the academy / David Goldie -- 3. Women and literary criticism / Kimberly VanEsveld Adams. -- II. National developments i...

v. 7. Modernism and the new criticism. [I]. The Modernists. 1. T.S. Eliot / Louis Menand -- 2. Ezra Pound / A. Walton Litz and Lawrence Rainey -- 3. Gertrude Stein / Steven Meyer -- 4. Virginia Woolf / Maria DiBattista -- 5. Wyndham Lewis / Vincent Sherry -- 6. W. B. Yeats / Lucy McDiarmid -- 7/. Th...

v. 8. From formalism to poststructuralism. 1. Russian formalism / Peter Steiner -- [I]. Structuralism : its rise, influence and aftermath. 2. Structuralism of the Prague School / Lubomír Dolez̆el -- 3. The linguistic model and its applications / Derek Attridge -- 4. Semiotics / Stephen Bann -- 5. N...

v. 9. Twentieth-century historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives. Introduction / Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris -- I. History. 1. Historicism and historical criticism / Paul Hamilton -- 2. Literary criticism and the history of ideas / Timothy Bahti -- 3. Cultural materialis...