TY - BOOK AU - Seaton, James TI - Literary criticism from Plato to postmodernism : : the humanistic alternative / SN - 9781107026100 AV - PN 86 .S43 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - United States of America PB - Cambridge University Press KW - CRITICISM--HISTORY KW - LITERATURE--PHILOSOPY N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter1. Plato and neoplatonism -- Chapter2. Romanticism and modernism -- Chapter3. Theory and cultural studies -- Chapter4. Aristotle and the humanistic tradition -- Chapter5. Edmund Wilson and Lionel Trilling -- Chapter6. Democracy, popular culture, and Ralph Ellison -- Chapter7. Literary criticism, the humanities, and liberal education N2 - This book offers a history of literary criticism from Plato to the present, arguing that this history can best be seen as a dialogue among three traditions - the Platonic, Neoplatonic, and the humanistic, originated by Aristotle ER -