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III. The history of ideas in literature and the arts in aesthetic theory and literary criticism.

               

Allegory in Literary History	Demonology
Ambiguity as Aesthetic Principle	Evolution of Literature
Ancients and Moderns in the Eighteenth Century	Expressionism in Literature
Art and Play	Form in the History of Aesthetics
Art for Art's Sake	Genius from the Renaissance to 1770
Baroque in Literature	Genius: Individualism in Art and Artists
Theories of Beauty to the Mid-Nineteenth Century	Musical Genius
Theories of Beauty since the Mid-Nineteenth Century	Concept of Gothic
Catharsis	Harmony or Rapture in Music
Chance Images	Iconography
Classicism in Literature	Impressionism in Art
Classification of the Arts	Irony
Sense of the Comic	Literature and Its Cognates
Creativity in Art	Literary Paradox
Literary Criticism	Millenarianism

                

Mimesis	Periodization in Literary History
Motif	Rhetoric and Literary Theory in Platonism
Motif in Literature; The Faust Theme	Poetry and Poetics from Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Literary Attitudes Toward Mountains	Realism in Literature Music and Science
Music as a Demonic Art	Rhetoric after Plato
Music as a Divine Art	Romanticism in Literature
Myth in Antiquity	Romanticism (ca. 1780-ca. 1830)
Myth in Biblical Times	Satire
Myth in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance	Victorian Sensibility and Sentiment
Myth in English Literature: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	Style in Literature
	Sublime in External Nature
Myth in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries	Symbol and Symbolism in Literature
Myth in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	Taste in the History of Aesthetics from the Renaissance to 1770
Naturalism in Art	Temperance (Sōphrosynē) and the Canon of the Cardinal Virtues
Neo-Classicism in Art	Sense of the Tragic
Newton's Opticks and Eighteenth-Century Imagination	Ut pictura poesis