Literary Criticism: An Introduction

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The artistic literature. 3. History and development in literary critical thought. 4. The foundations of English literary criticism. 5. Textual criticism. 6. Literary criticism and literary theory. 7. Historical criticism: theory of modes. 8. Structuralism and narrative poetics. 9. Structuralism and narrative poetics. 10. Ethical criticism: theory of symbols. 11. The idea of deconstruction. 12. Frye\'s anatomy of criticism: a critical examination. 13. Samuel Beckett\'s Proust: a critical Monograph. 14. A reader\'s manifesto. 15. Modernism: a socio-literary approach. Glossary. Bibliography.

"The literary critic trends to think that the textual scholar or bibliographer, happily occupied in his travel drudgery, has not much to say that he would care to hear, so there is a Gulf between them. This book advances to the edge of this Gulf and says several forceful things across it; they turn out to be important and interesting, though occasionally scathing. The chapters of this book remind us that the literary critic can only criticise with confidence when the textual critic has established what the author wrote; the author indicates how very much has yet to be done. This practical book is meant for students and teachers those are devoted in the English literary circle. A special care has been taken for the civil service students at the central and state levels, with English literature as a selective paper."