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Introduction; Part I. Reading and Interpretation: An Emerging Discourseof Poetics: 1. Theories of language; 2. Renaissance exegesis; 3. Evangelismand Erasmus; 4. The assimilation of Aristotle's Poetics in sixteenth-centuryItaly; 5. Horace in the sixteenth century: commentators into critics; 6.Cicero and Quintilian; Part II. Poetics: 7. Humanist classifications ofpoetry among the arts and sciences; 8. Theories of poetry: Latin writers; 9.Literary imitation in the sixteenth century: writers and readers, Latin andFrench; 10. Petrarchan poetics; 11. Translatio and translation in theRenaissance: from France to Italy; 12. Invention; 13. Humanist education; 14.Second rhetoric and the grands rhetoriqueurs; 15. The rhetoric of presence:art, literature, and illusion; 16. The paradoxical sisterhood: 'ut picturapoesis'; 17. Conceptions of style; 18. Sir Philip Sidney's An apology forpoetry; 19. Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus: the conception of readerresponse; 20. Italian epic theory; 21. The lyric; 22. Renaissance theatre andthe theory of tragedy; 23. Elizabethan theatrical genres and literary theory;24. Defining comedy in the seventeenth century: moral sense and theatricalsensibility; 25. Dialogue and discussion in the Renaissance; 26. The essay ascriticism; 27. The genres of epigram and emblem; 28. Humour and satire in theRenaissance; Part III. Theories of Prose Fiction: 29. Theories of prosefiction in England: 1558-1700; 30. Theories of prose fiction insixteenth-century France; 31. Seventeenth-century theories of the novel inFrance: writing and reading the truth; 32. Theories of prose fiction andpoetics in Italy: novella and romanzo (1525-1596); Part IV. Contexts ofCriticism: 33. Criticism and the metropolis: Tudor-Stuart London; 34.Criticism in the city: Lyons and Paris; 35. Culture, imperialism, andhumanist criticism in the Italian city-states; 36. German-speaking centresand institutions; 37. Courts and patronage; 38. Rooms of their own: literarysalons in seventeenth-century France; 39. Renaissance printing and the booktrade; Part V. Voices of Dissent: 40. The Ciceronian controversy; 41.Reorganizing the encyclopedia: Vives and Ramus on Aristotle and thescholastics; 42. The rise of the vernaculars; 43. Ancients and Moderns:France; 44. Women as auctores in early modern Europe; Part VI. Structures ofThought: 45. Renaissance Neoplatonism; 46. Cosmography and poetics; 47.Natural philosophy and the 'new science'; 48. Stoicism and Epicureanism:philosophical revival and literary repercussions; 49. Calvinism andpost-Tridentine developments; 50. Port-Royal and Jansenism; Part VII.Neoclassical Issues - Beauty, Judgement, Persuasion, Polemics: 51. Combativecriticism: Jonson, Milton, and classical literary criticism in England; 52.The rhetorical ideal in seventeenth-century France; 53. Cartesian aesthetics;54. Principles of judgement: probability, decorum, taste, and the je ne saisquoi; 55. Longinus and the Sublime; Part VIII. Survey of NationalDevelopments: 56. Seventeenth-century English literary criticism: classicalvalues, Engish texts and contents; 57. French criticism in the seventeenthcentury; 58. Literary critical developments in sixteenth- andseventeenth-century Italy; 59. Cultural commentary in seventeenth-centurySpain: literary theory and textual practice; 60. The German-speakingcountries; 61. The Low Countries; Bibliography; Index.