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      • Volume 1: Classical Criticism
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      26 January 1990
      ISBN:
      9781139055338
      9780521300063
      9780521317177
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521300063
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.718kg, 400 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.655kg, 400 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Languages, Literary Theory
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (1)
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Languages, Literary Theory
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (1)
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Literature
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    Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and Roman authors, this volume is not only for classicists but for those with no Greek or Latin who are interested in the origins of literary history, theory, and criticism.

    Reviews

    ‘Literary criticism matters because ... it is concerned not simply with the narrow issue of how we should read specific texts, but with larger and more fundamental questions about the nature and function of literature. The new Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, which aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the subject from classical antiquity to the present day, is therefore a welcome prospect. Volume One, the first of a projected nine volumes, covers the whole field of ancient criticism up to the early fourth century AD and provides the sort of thorough and judicious account that we would expect from a standard work of reference.’

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

    'It is impossible to overemphasize the importance and usefulness of this volume as a vademecum for all serious students of medieval textual production in its multiform evaluation and its complex, ever-changing relationship to larger intellectual, social and cultural norms.'

    Source: Journal of English and Germanic Philology

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