#booktok #philosophy #literature #literarytheory Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa ENG 3375 -- Contemporary Literary Theory Lecture 2 An introduction to the History of Literary Theory. This is the first of three lectures on that history, dealing with the core texts of Ancient Literary Theory: Plato, Aristotle and Horace. Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KxgzguToiwDukgfACnUY38WJZHA5mJk9/view?usp=sharing Course Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/courses/contemporary-literary-theory-2025-26 0:00 - Introduction 0:20 - Plato's Critique of Poetry in The Republic 3:25 - The Quarrel of Philosophy and Poetry 6:20 - The Structure of the Republic 12:16 - The political / moral critique of poetry 17:00 - The metaphysical critique of poetry 27:28 - The Phaedrus -- on the organic unity of the work 29:54 - Aristole's Poetics 39:30 - Horace's Art of Poetry Related lectures: https://youtu.be/jWps2AkdcfE?si=DRYcUtBR8dKZ3Cvf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atO00DT1ljk&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4VJwHJUp2Eg8_kAIkh9vwIW&index=2&t=1198s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LEOyaYr9c&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4VJwHJUp2Eg8_kAIkh9vwIW&index=6&t=1796s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19C2uu2APy0&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4VJwHJUp2Eg8_kAIkh9vwIW&index=7&t=20s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v13J7a4Q1I&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4VJwHJUp2Eg8_kAIkh9vwIW&index=8&t=57s&pp=iAQBsAgC