ANCIENT GREEK CRITICISM: Plato
THE TRADITIONS OF RHETORIC: Greek rhetoric
The Hellenistic period and Roman rhetoric
GREEK AND LATIN CRITICISM DURING THE ROMAN EMPIRE: Horace
THE MEDIEVAL ERA: The early Middle Ages
Transitions : medieval humanism
THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT: The early modern period
Neoclassical literary criticism
THE EARLER NINETEENTH CENTURY AND ROMANTICISM: The Kantian system and Kant's aesthetics
Romanticism (I) : Germany and France
Romanticism (II) : England and America
THE LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY: Realism and naturalism
Symbolism and aestheticism
The heterological thinkers
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Psychoanalytic criticism
Reader-response and reception theory
