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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

There is surprisingly little on the historical development
of theories of style, and the subject is best studied in general
histories of criticism: J. W. H. Atkins, Literary Criticism in
Antiquity
(Cambridge, 1934); E. Faral, Les arts poétiques
du XIIe et du XIIIe siècles
(Paris, 1924), includes the key
texts in full; G. Saintsbury, A History of Criticism (Edin-
burgh and London, 1900-04); B. Weinberg, A History of
Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance
(Chicago,
1961); R. Wellek, A History of Literary Criticism 1750-1950
(New Haven, 1955-). A most useful work, though elementary
in intention, is L. Cooper's Theories of Style (New York,
1907), which includes representative essays from Plato to
the end of the nineteenth century, in English or translated
into English. For post-1900, see, for example, J. Cohen,
Structure du langage poétique (Paris, 1966); R. Fowler, ed.,
Essays on Style and Language (London, 1966); H. A.
Hatzfeld, A Critical Bibliography of the New Stylistics
(Chapel Hill, 1953); J. Leed, ed., The Computer and Literary
Style
(Kent, Ohio, 1966).

R. A. SAYCE

[See also Ambiguity; Beauty; Criticism; Form; Metaphor;
Poetry and Poetics; Rationality; Rhetoric; Romanticism;
Structuralism.]