The New Science

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I. Literary Theory and Criticism

1. History of Literary Theory and Criticism until 1930

Giambattista Vico. Books 1-3 from “The New Science”.

Supporting References:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Science

2. “Giambattista Vico.” The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. 399-401. Print.
3. Costelloe, Timothy. "Giambattista Vico." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Spring Edition. 2012. Web. 15 Aug 2013.

The article with URL( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vico/ ) offers an overview of Vico and less a discussion on the above-cited text.

“Giovanni Battista Vico (1668–1744) spent most of his professional life as Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Naples. He was trained in jurisprudence, but read widely in Classics, philology, and philosophy, all of which informed his highly original views on history, historiography, and culture. His thought is most fully expressed in his mature work, the Scienza Nuova or The New Science. In his own time, Vico was relatively unknown, but from the nineteenth century onwards his views found a wider audience and today his influence is widespread in the humanities and social sciences.”