Organic Unity in Ancient and Later Poetics: The Philosophical Foundations of Liberty Criticism - Rilegato

Orsini, Gian N. G.

 
9780809307289: Organic Unity in Ancient and Later Poetics: The Philosophical Foundations of Liberty Criticism
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ISBN 10: 0809307286 ISBN 13: 9780809307289
Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1975

Sinossi

There is a tendency in some contemporary critics, according to G. N. Giordano Orsini, to start every question from scratch, as if it had never been thought of before. This fos­ters the illusion that the critic’s views on that question are entirely novel and original. Since, as Mr. Orsini goes on to point out, the same attitude may be taken at the same time by other critics of differing or opposite views, the result is the babel that easily can be imagined.

 

Orsini writes from a point of view which is about the exact opposite of that. He believes that knowledge of the history of ideas is the lifeblood of any critical concep­tion that aims at saying something that is also new.

 

Detailed notes as well as a selected bibli­ography serve as guideposts to further inquiry beyond the scope of this introduction to the philosophy of literary criticism. Readers will find this penetrating essay by one of the great contemporary scholars both scintillating and thought provoking.

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Informazioni sull'autore

G. N. Giordano Orsini is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin.

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Editore
Southern Illinois Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1975
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0809307286
ISBN 13 
9780809307289
Rilegatura
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Numero di pagine
120
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