English Criticism and Creation
Contents: Preface. 1. The history of literary criticism. 2. Early Chaucer and late medieval poetics. 3. Poststructuralist rhetorical theory. 4. Distinctions and precautions. 5. Differences, genres and influences. 6. Critical strategy/strategic criticism. 7. The traveling theory of Lukacs’s Theory and the novel. 8. Fictionality in narrative theory. 9. Folkloristics and African American literary criticism. 10. Post-Babbitt literary criticism. 11. American literary and cultural criticism. 12. Polysystem Theory in explaining the assimilation of English literary models. 13. Ghostly presence in contemporary literacy studies. Bibliography. Index.
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals: During the last decade many academic literary critics have developed an intense interest in the history of their discipline. No longer content to know merely what previous critics wrote, they explore the institutional and broader political histories surrounding critical theories and practices. Freud considered literary creations and more generally, artistic creations enigmatic because of their ability to produce emotion in the spectator (the essence of art) and in regard t the origin of these chosen by authors.
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals: During the last decade many academic literary critics have developed an intense interest in the history of their discipline. No longer content to know merely what previous critics wrote, they explore the institutional and broader political histories surrounding critical theories and practices. Freud considered literary creations and more generally, artistic creations enigmatic because of their ability to produce emotion in the spectator (the essence of art) and in regard t the origin of these chosen by authors.
