Download or read book The Theory of Criticism from Plato to the Present written by Raman Selden and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is divided into five parts: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. The study of literary theory has tended to concentrate on very recent developments. This volume, however, establishes both a sense of the continuities from Plato to the present day as well as the discontinuities. These are presented through comparisons and contrasts across the entire field of critical history.