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The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism (Hardcover)
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Yun Lee Too offers a sustained reading of the social function of
the body of texts we identify as 'ancient literary criticism' with
major implications for how we understand this discourse and also
modern criticism and literary theory. The author argues that when
Greek and Roman authors discuss what and how to read in works, they
are attempting to create and maintain the political community and
its identity by regulating the languages available to it. Literary
criticism is a process of discrimination between competing
discourses, serving as a strategy by which certain forms of speech
or writing may be pronounced legitimate at the expense of others.
The volume traces ancient criticism from its origins in archaic
Greek poetry through to the early Christian era. As well as reading
the familiar texts of ancient criticism - Plato's Republic,
Aristotle's Poetics, [Longinus] On the Sublime, amongst others - it
shows how ancient law, history, and rhetoric participate in the
critical process.
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