Literary Criticism
A Concise Guide to Interpreting Literature
Literary Criticism: A concise exploration into the multifaceted world of interpreting and analyzing literary texts. Delve into various critical lenses, from formalism and structuralism to post-structuralism and feminism, understanding how these perspectives shape our understanding of literature's complexities. Examine the historical evolution of critical theory and its impact on literary scholarship, equipping you with the tools to engage with texts critically and thoughtfully. This guide offers a comprehensive overview of major critical approaches, empowering readers to develop their own informed interpretations.
Chapters & Reading Units (6)
Click any chapter to start readingDavid Hume
“Of the Standard of Taste” – From ‘Four Dissertations’
Edmund Burke
Part 1: Section VII, Section XVIII; Part 2 – Sections I-VIII; Part 3 – Section XXVII’- From A Phil osophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
Virginia Woolf
Modern Fiction (1925)
T. S. Eliot
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
I. A. Richards
Principles of Literary Criticism
Cleanth Brooks
The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947) (i) ‘The Language of Paradox’ (ii) ‘The Heresy of Paraphrase’