Literary Criticism from Plato to Post-Theory: An Introduction

M.A.R. Habib is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and a leading scholar in literary criticism, philosophy, and translation. He is the author of Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory, Hegel and Empire, Literary Studies: A Norton Guide, and The Early T.S. Eliot and Western Philosophy. Habib has edited The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume VI and the Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (originally compiled by J.A. Cuddon). His work also includes several translations of Urdu poetry.