Author: R A Scott-James
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 396
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170231299
Description
This book examines the principles of literary criticism in the light of ancient and modern theory.
In this volume R A Scott-James, an eminent writer and literary critic seeks to examine the functions of criticism and to discover the principles of art based upon the conscious evidence of the greatest creative writers from Homer to Hardy, from Aristotle to modern critics. His inquiry, pursued along the line of a continuous historical tradition, leads to some general conclusions applicable to the art of literature in our own or any other time.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:
"I assure every teacher or writer that it is a work which ought to be acquired at any cost" Rebecca West in her book TRADITION AND EXPERIMENT.
Contents
CHAPTER I
The Light from Heaven
CHAPTER II
The First Critic
CHAPTER III
The Literature of Power
CHAPTER IV
Before Plato
CHAPTER V
"Imitation"
CHAPTER VI
The "Poetics"
CHAPTER VII
Centuries of Rhetoric
CHAPTER VIII
The First Romantic Critic
CHAPTER IX
The Dark Ages
CHAPTER X
Dante
CHAPTER XI
Emancipation
CHAPTER XII
Ben Jonson
CHAPTER XIII
Nature Methodized
CHAPTER XIV
Dryden
CHAPTER XV
The Logic of Taste
CHAPTER XVI
Classic and Romantic
CHAPTER XVII
Painting and Poetry
CHAPTER XVIII
Inspiration
CHAPTER XIX
The Roaring Furnaces
CHAPTER XX
The Esemplastic Imagination
CHAPTER XXI
Coleridge and Goethe
CHAPTER XXII
The Method of Sainte-Beuve
CHAPTER XXIII
Matthew Arnold
CHAPTER XXIV
Art and Morality
CHAPTER XXV
Walter Pater
CHAPTER XXVI
Expressionism
CHAPTER XXVII
Some Conclusions
CHAPTER XXVIII
The Novel
CHAPTER XXIX
The Critic
Index