Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism

This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines:

• major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler;
• key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotio...