The Routledge concise history of literary criticism and theory [electronic resource] / Pelagia Goulimari.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-362) and index.

1. Mimesis : Plato and the poet -- 2. Aristotle and tragedy : from Poetics to postcolonial tragedy -- 3. Medieval and Renaissance criticism : from mimesis to creation -- 4. The Enlightenment and Romanticism : reason and imagination -- 5. Modernity, multiplicity and becoming -- 6. Freud and psychoanalytic criticism : the self in fragments -- 7. Defamiliarization, alienation, dialogism and montage -- 8. Decentering modernisms : newness, tradition, culture and society -- 9. Twentieth-century North American criticism : close reading to interpretation, modernism to postmodernism, History to histories -- 10. Poetry and hermeneutics, critique and dissonant composition, freedom and situation -- 11. From structuralism to poststructuralism : text, power, minor literature, deconstruction -- 12. Poststructuralist deviations : mimicry, resignification, contrapuntal reading, the subaltern, signifyin(g), hybridity.