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Part 1: Introduction A Cinderella subject
Questions and answers
What is truth ?
Caveats and consequences
Part 2: An outline history of literary criticism
Plato
Aristotle
Horace
Longinus
The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Sir Philip Sidney
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
Joseph Addison
The rise of the novel
Samunel Taylor Coleridge
Matthew Arnold
Modern criticism
Henry James
T. S. Eliot
New Criticism
Newer than new: stylistics and structuralism
Part 3: The critical fortunes of three major texts
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Songs and Sonets by John Donne
Greal Expectations by Charles Dickens
Part 4: The pravtice of criticism : a blueprint
The critical essay
Part 5: Suggestions for further reading
Index of principal critics and authors
The author of this Handbook
YORK HANDBOOKS from a companion series to York Notes and are designed to meet the wider needs of students of English and related fields. Each volume is a compact study of a given subject area. Written by an authority with exoerience in communicating the essential ideas to students of all levels.
AN INTRODUCYION TO LITERARY CRITICISM provides a sound background to a subject that has recent years. As a means of identifying the underlying principles of the subject, the author examines the manner in which successive eras and individual critics have applied different yardsticks by which to judge literary output, in this way the complexities of modern criticism are set in the perspexities of modern criticism are set in the perspective of its antecedents, and seen as only the most recent links in a chain of changing of this analysis are drawn together in the concluding chapter . which offers a blueprint for the practice of criticism
