Index

Abdallah ibn al-Mu’tazz 10 Addison, Joseph 34 Adorno, Theodor 8, 117– 18 aestheticism 64–5, 94, 170 aesthetics 7, 30, 42, 64– 5, 170 allusion 33, 104, 170 ambiguity 82–3, 126 Anderson, Benedict 159 Anthony, Michael 155 apology 25 Aristotle 11, 18–22, 26, 33, 36, 59, 96

Plato vs 18– 19, 66 Arnold, Matthew 51–5, 57, 63–5, 84 Ashcroft, Bill 155 author function 105 Author-God 109 authorial intention 89, 92, 125 authority 43 Aytoun, William Edmondstoune 56 ballad 48, 56, 131, 170 Barthes, Roland 103, 104, 109–10 Bate, Jonathan 6, 165 Bateson, F.W. 85 Baudrillard, Jean 110 Beardsley, Monroe 89–90 Beauvoir, Simone de 137, 149 Belles Lettres 55–6, 59 Benjamin, Walter 11, 62– 3, 117–18 Berkeley, Bishop 45 Bhaba, Homi K. 156, 159 Blair, Reverend Hugh 55– 6 Bloch, Ernst 117–18 Boileau, Nicholas 34 Boswell, James 45

Brecht, Bertolt 22 Brontë, Charlotte 73 Brontë, Emily 73 Brooks, Cleanth 88 Buell, Lawrence 161, 167 Butler, Judith 148–50 Butler, Samuel 40 canon 45, 68, 74, 84, 155, 170 capitalism 111–12 Carew, Thomas 39 Carpenter, Edward 147 catalysts 68 catharsis 21–2 Cavaliers 37–40 Césaire, Aimé 153 Cixous, Hélène 137 Clare, John 165 classicism 41, 43, 170

Romanticism vs 41, 43–4 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 46–7 comedy 18–19, 21 concrete 45–6, 90 consciousness 44–5, 120, 125–6 critic as artist 67 as chameleon 12– 13

role of 70, 90, 119 critical re-readings 146–7 criticism function 51–4, 63, 69–70

history 9–10, 14– 15

as moral activity 84 Cromwell, Oliver 39 cultural commodities 113 cultural materialism 132–4 cultural studies 134 deconstruction 108 defamiliarization 94 Derrida, Jacques 105–9 Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean 34 diachronic principles 98 dialectic 118, 170

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différance 106 difference (linguistic) 100, 106 discourse 105, 130, 170 disinterestedness 52–3, 64– 5 dithyramb 18–19, 170 Dollimore, Jonathan 132 Donne, John 79, 84 Dostoevsky, Fyodor 92 Dryden, John 34, 36, 48 Eagleton, Terry 119 ecocriticism 161–7 ecopoetics 165, 167 écriture féminine 137–8 Eichenbaum, Boris 91, 94 Eliot, George, (Mary Ann Evans) 73 Eliot, T.S. 63, 68–71, 76, 80, 84, 87 Empson, William 82, 87–8 encomia 17, 38, 170 Engels, Friedrich 113, 116 English Civil War 37–40 English Literature, development as discipline 55–7 epic 18–19, 20, 112 essays 8, 170 essentialism 138–40, 149 Eurocentrism 156, 158 Fanon, Frantz 151–2, 160 Felman, Shoshana 126 female author, struggle of 72–5 feminism 135–9, 143–4

first-wave 135 second-wave 135–6, 139, 141–2 Fichte, Johann 44 Findley, Timothy 155 Flaubert, Gustave 158 Fliess, Wilhelm 122 formalism 77

Russian 91–4, 102, 114 forms, theory of 16 Foucault, Michel 105, 108, 129–30, 158