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The Renaissance

Series The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 3

Edited by Glyn P. Norton

Publication Date 1999

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521300087

Hardback ISBN-10
0521300088

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521300087

Overview

This volume is 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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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Glyn P. Norton

Reading and interpretation: an emerging discourse of poetics

Poetics

Theories of prose fiction

Contexts of criticism: metropolitan culture and socio-literary environments

Voices of dissent

Structures of thought

Neoclassical issues: beauty, judgement, persuasion, polemics

A Survey of national developments

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