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Klappentext This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index. Zusammenfassung This 1999 volume! now available in paperback for the first time! has become the standard work of reference on early modern literary criticism in Europe. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction! detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Reading and Interpretation: An Emerging Discourse of Poetics: 1. Theories of language; 2. Renaissance exegesis; 3. Evangelism and Erasmus; 4. The assimilation of Aristotle's Poetics in sixteenth-century Italy; 5. Horace in the sixteenth century: commentators into critics; 6. Cicero and Quintilian; Part II. Poetics: 7. Humanist classifications of poetry among the arts and sciences; 8. Theories of poetry: Latin writers; 9. Literary imitation in the sixteenth century: writers and readers, Latin and French; 10. Petrarchan poetics; 11. Translatio and translation in the Renaissance: from France to Italy; 12. Invention; 13. Humanist education; 14. Second rhetoric and the grands rhetoriqueurs; 15. The rhetoric of presence: art, literature, and illusion; 16. The paradoxical sisterhood: 'ut pictura poesis'; 17. Conceptions of style; 18. Sir Philip Sidney's An apology for poetry; 19. Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus: the conception of reader response; 20. Italian epic theory; 21. The lyric; 22. Renaissance theatre and the theory of tragedy; 23. Elizabethan theatrical genres and literary theory; 24. Defining comedy in the seventeenth century: moral sense and theatrical sensibility; 25. Dialogue and discussion in the Renaissance; 26. The essay as criticism; 27. The genres of epigram and emblem; 28. Humour and satire in the Renaissance; Part III. Theories of Prose Fiction: 29. Theories of prose fiction in England: 1558-1700; 30. Theories of prose fiction in sixteenth-century France; 31. Seventeenth-century theories of the novel in France: writing and reading the truth; 32. Theories of prose fiction and poetics in Italy: novella and romanzo (1525-96); Part IV. Contexts of Criticism: 33. Criticism and the metropolis: Tudor-Stuart London; 34. Criticism in the city: Lyons and Paris; 35. Culture, imperialism, and humanist criticism in the Italian city-states; 36. German-speaking centres and institutions; 37. Courts and patronage; 38. Rooms of their own: literary salons in seventeenth-century France; 39. Renaissance printing and the book trade; Part V. Voices of Dissent: 40. The Ciceronian controversy; 41. Reorganizing the encyclopedia: Vives and Ramus on Aristotle and the scholastics; 42. The rise of the vernaculars; 43. Ancients and Moderns: France; 44. Women as auctores in early modern Europe; Part VI. Structures of Thought: 45. Renaissance Neoplatonism; 46. Cosmography and poetics; 47. Natural philosophy and the 'new science'; 48. Stoicism and Epicureanism: philosophical revival and literary reper...
