E23F THEORISTS DISCUSSED (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)
PRE-TWENTIETH CENTURY THEORISTS
The Classical Period
- Plato The Republic (c.370 BC), Cratylus (c.350
BC)
- Aristotle Physics, On Interpretation, Nichomachean
Ethics, and Poetics
(c.335-322BC)
- [Horace "Art of Poetry" (c.20 BC)]
- ‘Longinus’ On the Sublime (1st century AD?)
The Medieval Period
- [Plotinus The Enneads (260)]
- St. Augustine On Christian Doctrine (426)
- St. Thomas Aquinas The Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine
(1272)
Renaissance (c.1500 - c.1660)
- Sidney, Sir Philip "An Apology for Poetry" (1595)
- [Bacon, Francis The Advancement of Learning (1605), The New
Organon (1620)]
- Descartes, René Discourse on Method (1637), Meditations on First Philosophy
(1641)
- [Jonson, Ben "Timber: or, Discoveries" (1641)]
Neoclassicism (c.1660 - c.1785)
- Locke, John Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
- [Pope, Alexander "An Essay on Criticism" (1711)]
- [Addison, Joseph "On the Pleasures of the Imagination" (1712)]
- [Johnson, Samuel Rambler 4 (March 31, 1750), "Rasselas:
Chapter X" (1759), "Preface to Shakespeare" (1765)]
- [Young, Edward "Conjectures on Original Composition"
(1759)]
Romanticism (c.1785 - c.1830)
- Kant, Immanuel Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
- Herder, J. G. Ideas Towards a Philosophy of the History of Man
(1784-1791)
- Wollstonecraft, Mary A Vindication of The Rights of Woman
(1792)
- Von Humboldt, Wilhelm Collected Works (1796-1835)
- Wordsworth, William "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"
(1800)
- Coleridge, S. T. "Shakespeare’s Judgment Equal to his Genius"
(1808), "On the Principles of Genial Criticism" (1814), The Statesman’s Manual
(1816), Biographia Literaria (1817)
- Keats, John "Letters" (1817-1818)
- Schlegel, Frederich Lectures on the History of Literature
(trans. 1818)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe "A Defence of Poetry" (1821)
- [Carlyle, Thomas Sartor Resartus (1831)]
- Hegel, G. W. F. The Philosophy of History (1832)
The Nineteenth Century (in England, the Victorian
Period--c.1830 - c.1890)
- Taine, Hippolyte History of English Literature (1863)
- Arnold, Matthew "The Function of Criticism at the
Present Time" (1864), "The Study of Poetry" (1880)
- [Mills, John Stuart The Subjection of Women (1869)]
- [Pater, Walter Studies in the History of the Renaissance
(1873)]
- [Zola, Emile The Experimental Novel (1880)]
- Renan, Ernest "What is a Nation?" (1882)
- Croce, Benedetto Aesthetic (1902)
- [James, Henry "Preface to The Ambassadors"
(1909)]
TWENTIETH CENTURY HUMANIST THEORETICAL SCHOOLS
Anglo-American Modernism (c. 1890 - c. 1930)
- Yeats, W. B. "The Symbolism of Poetry" (1900)
- Eliot, T. S. "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
(1917), "Hamlet and his Problems" (1919)
- Richards, I. A. Principles of Literary Criticism
(1924), Science and Poetry (1926), Practical Criticism (1929)
New Criticism
- Ransom, John Crowe "Criticism as Pure Speculation"
(1941)
- Wimsatt, W. K., and Beardsley, Monroe C. "The Intentional
Fallacy", "The Affective Fallacy" (1946)
- Brooks, Cleanth The Well-Wrought Urn (1947), "Irony as a Principle of Structure"
(1949)
Neo-Aristotelian Mimetic Criticism
- Auerbach, Erich Mimesis: the Representation of Reality
in Western Literature (1946)
- Watt, Ian The Rise of the Novel (1957)
Neo-Aristotelian Narratology ('The Chicago School')
- [Schorer, Mark "Technique as Discovery" (1948)]
- Crane, R. S. The Languages of Criticism and the
Structure of Poetry (1953)
- Booth, Wayne The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961)
Neo-Longinian Author-Oriented Criticism
- Ong, Walter "A DIalectic of Aural and Objective Correlatives"
(1958)
- Fiedler, Leslie "Archetype and Signature: a Study of the Relationship
between Biography and Poetry" (1960)
Liberal Humanist Feminism
- Woolf, Virginia A Room of Our Own (1929)
- Ferguson, Mary Anne Images of Women in Literature (1973)
- Showalter, Elaine A Literature of Their Own: British
Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977), "Towards a Feminist
Poetics" (1979)
- Fetterley, Judith The Resisting Reader (1978)
Liberal Humanist Diasporic and Anti-Colonial Theory
- Du Bois, W. E. B. "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" (1897)
- Brathwaite, Kamau "Roots" (1963), "Caribbean Critics"
(1969), "Timehri" (1970), The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica
(1971), History of the Voice (1979)
- Achebe, Chinua "The Novelist as Teacher" (1965), "The Duty and Involvement of the African Writer"
(1968), "The Truth of Fiction" (1978)
- Senghor, Leopold Sedar
- Ramchand, Ken The West Indian Novel and its Background
(1970), "Concern for Criticism" (1970)
- Walcott, Derek "The Muse of History" (1974)
- Irele, Abiola "The African Imagination" (1990)