Literary Theory and Criticism

30 Minutes Lectures by Louis Markos, Professor in English & Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University where he holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities.

🎧 Introduction: Thinking Theoretically

🎧 Plato-Kicking-out-the-Poets

🎧 Aristotle’s Poetics – Mimesis and Plot

🎧 Aristotle’s Poetics – Character and Catharsis

🎧 Horace’s Ars Poetica

🎧 Longinus on the Sublime

🎧 Sidney’s Apology for Poetry

🎧 Dryden, Pope, and Decorum

🎧 Burke-on-the-Sublime-and-Beautiful

🎧 Kant’s-Critique-of-Judgment

🎧 Schiller-on-Aesthetics

🎧 Hegel-and-the-Journey-of-the-Idea

🎧 Wordsworth-Coleridge-and-British-Romanticism

🎧 Mr.-Wordsworths-Preface

🎧 Coleridge-Transcendental-Philosopher

🎧 Shelley’s-Defense-of-Poetry

🎧 The-Status-of-Poetry-I.A.-Richards-and-John-Crowe.

🎧 Saussure and Structuralism

🎧 Structuralism and Deconstruction

🎧 Archetypal Theory: Saint-Paul to Northrop Frye

🎧 Origins-of-Modernism

🎧 Varieties-of-Post-modernism

🎧  The Function of Criticism

🎧 Literary Criticism of William K Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks