Book contents
- Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism
- Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Plato and Neoplatonism
- 2 Romanticism and Modernism
- 3 Theory and Cultural Studies
- 4 Aristotle and the Humanistic Tradition
- 5 Edmund Wilson and Lionel Trilling
- 6 Democracy, Popular Culture, and Ralph Ellison
- 7 Literary Criticism, the Humanities, and Liberal Education
- Works Cited
- Index
6 - Democracy, Popular Culture, and Ralph Ellison
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2014
- Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism
- Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Plato and Neoplatonism
- 2 Romanticism and Modernism
- 3 Theory and Cultural Studies
- 4 Aristotle and the Humanistic Tradition
- 5 Edmund Wilson and Lionel Trilling
- 6 Democracy, Popular Culture, and Ralph Ellison
- 7 Literary Criticism, the Humanities, and Liberal Education
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Literary Criticism from Plato to PostmodernismThe Humanistic Alternative, pp. 145 - 171Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014