Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism Excerpted from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/printable/722/ by J. Case Tompkins, Allen Brizee. Last full revision by Allen Brizee. Last edited by Allen Brizee on February 14th 2008 at 4:31PM Summary: This resource will help you begin the proc...
Literary Criticism查尔斯·E.布莱斯勒 / Longman / 2011-3-26出版 想读 在读 读过 简介 Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 5/e presents the thirteen basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in t...展开...
Schools of Literary Criticism New Criticism: Focuses on “objectively” evaluating the text, identifying its underlying form. May study, for example, a text’s use of imagery, metaphor, or symbolism. Isn’t concerned with matters outside the text, such as biographical or contextual information. ...
Language is as precise as ‘hello!’ and as simple as “Give me a glass of tea” —Vladimir Mayakovsky about Anton Chekhov Literary criticism is an art, like the writing of tragedies or the making of love, and similarly does not pay —Clifton Fadiman ...
Literary criticism, the study of a literary text, can begin with a particular literary theory. Literary theory is the idea that guides literary criticism. Theory helps to differentiate literary texts from the others; it works to classify literary texts into categories and schools of thought. One ...
how language, narrative techniques, and cultural contexts converge, influencing the meaning embedded within literary works. This article examines the principles and insights provided by several key schools of literary criticism, demonstrating how they contribute to a comprehensive understanding of literature....
The second edition of Literary Criticism by Charles E. Bressler is designed to help readers make conscious, informed, and intelligent choices concerning literary interpretation. By explaining the historical development and theoretical positions of eleven schools of criticism, author Charles Bressler reveals...
Introduce students to literary theory and the schools of criticism. For this Othello activity, students will be limited to Psychoanalytic Criticism, New Historicism/Cultural StudiesCriticism, Feminist/Gender Criticism and Marxist Criticism. There are many other lensesin the history of literary analysis....
This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists poets, playwrights, scientists am literary theorists, of 1900 to 1959 -- the era most frequently studied in high schools. Each volume presents overvi...
Understanding literature in terms of its relations to history,politics gender,social class,race,mythology or psychology. Critical tendency:many schools of criticism seek to influence on the social reality with in their historical context. References and Further reading: ...