Development of Literary Criticism Context Writer Text Context

Development of Literary Criticism Context Writer Text Context Reader

Development of Literary Criticism CONTEXT HISTORICAL WRITER BIOGRAPHICAL TEXT PSYCHOLOGICAL FORMALIST READER RESPOSE

Types of Literary Criticism n n n Mimetic Criticism: is that type of criticism which sees literature as an imitation of nature. Pragmatic Criticism: is that type of criticism that is concerned with the relationship of the work of art to its audience. [to teach & delight] Expressive Criticism: is that type of criticism that is concerned with literature and its relationship to its author. Objective Criticism: is that type of criticism that studies literature in its relationship to itself solely. Formalist Criticism: is that type of criticism that sees literature as primarily a form.

Types of Literary Criticism n n Legislative Criticism: is that type of criticism that teaches writers how to write and lays down rules of literary composition. Historical Criticism: is that type of criticism that sees literature against the background of the age in which it was written. Biographical Criticism: is that type of criticism that evaluates literature against the background of the life of its author. Comparative Criticism: is that type of criticism that evaluates a literary work by comparing it to other literary works in other languages.

Types of Literary Criticism n n n Psychological Criticism: is that type of literary criticism that studies the literary work with reference to the facts of the interior life of its author. Impressionistic Criticism: is that type of criticism that records the critic’s own appreciation of the literary work. [subjective] Archetypal Criticism: is that type of criticism that examines literature with the hope of discovering an underlying mythological patterns.

Periods of Literary Criticism: Timeline Period Date Place Critics Activity Greek 3 rd Century BC Athens Plato & Aristotle Nature of Literature Roman 1 st Century AD Rome Horace, Quintillian, Longinus Observations on Poetry, Style & Sublimity Renaissance 16 th Century England Philip Sidney Apology for Poetry Neo Classicism 17 th & 18 th C’s England Dryden, Pope & Johnson Satire, Wit, Nature, Drama Romanticism Early 19 th Century England Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley Imagination, Poetic Genius Victorian Late 19 th C England Mathew Arnold Method of Criticism, Grand Style Modern 20 th century England T. S. Eliot Impersonal Theory of Poetry