| Literary Criticism |
| I am currently taking LITR 316 this spring semester, 2002, viewing the different approaches of different critics to literature. This is a table of what each critic thought in regards to each subject. At least, this is what I have deciphered my notes to say. |
| Imitation/ Creativity |
| Truth/ Lies |
| Instruct/ Delight |
| Beauty |
| Poetics |
| Morality |
| Universal/ Particular |
| Ancients/ Moderns |
| Plato |
| Ideal |
| There should be no poetics, futher from ideal |
| Instruct--delight is with emotion, bad |
| Truth is ideal |
| Imitation of the ideal, no creation |
| Thinking being is moral--no lying, except... |
| Universal truth, ideal is universal |
| he was an ancient |
| Poets are lying |
| Aristotle |
| Has a taxonomy, not all meters equal |
| imitate actions of men--ideal not important |
| he was an ancient |
| Delight |
| Horace |
| poet is not lying, but making nature better |
| a little, yes |
| unity of form--has a poetics |
| yes; certain meters |
| creativity--has advice for writers |
| no mention |
| he gives instruct-ion on how to delight |
| n/a |
| in the work |
| Longinus (my fav) |
| don't imitate nature; imitate other sublime poets, if at all |
| certain meters equal certain effects |
| sublime found more in Demo-cracy than in Despot |
| late ancient--100AD |
| particular; man,not men |
| delight, both in creation and reading |
| Boethius |
| poetry lies |
| universal |
| phil-osophy is beauty |
| poetry is bad |
| imitation = bad |
| n/a |
| yes:poetry bad, philosophy good |
| n/a |
| Aquinas |
| creativity (metaphor) can lead to knowing God |
| meta-phor not lie, but leads to God |
| metaphor instructs |
| moral work beautiful |
| none |
| God is moral; metaphor is not evil |
| Universal |
| n/a |
| Dante |
| some; comedy vs. tragedy, et all |
| universal--the senses of all men |
| connected with teaching--3rd sense |
| instruct |
| n/a |
| n/a |
| n/a |
| creative |
| Corneille |
| well-formed imitation of reality |
| n/a |
| applied to theatre |
| particular |
| instruct |
| get as close to reality as possible |
| don't lie if author can get around it |
| mirrors Aristotle |
| Dryden |
| moderns--english |
| Imitation/ Creativity |
| Truth/ Lies |
| Instruct/ Delight |
| Beauty |
| Poetics |
| Morality |
| Universal/ Particular |
| Ancients/ Moderns |
| -Neander |
| unities not absolute |
| -Lisideus |
| moderns--french |
| unities to the letter |
| -Eugenius |
| modern--we know more |
| imitate human nature |
| unities important |
| Crites |
| ancients--closer to nature |
| imitate nature, not ancients |
| ancients followed rules, moderns don't |
| n/a |
| greeks don't instruct--amoral |
| plato to dryden |
| beautiful work has certain meters |
| particular |
| beauty in in sublime writing |
| n/a |
| universal inspir-ation, but specific results |