Name : Ravi Bhaliya ASemester : 01Roll No : 26Paper No : 03 (Literary Theory and Criticism)Enrolment No:14101004Year : 2014-16Email ID : ravibhaliya5@gmil.comDate : 07-10-14Submitted To: Department Of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Various Types of criticism

Introduction

What Is Criticism ?

Literary Criticism

Impressionistic Criticism

Expressive Criticism

Objective Criticism

Introduction

The Greek Word Kritikos, which means ‘ Able to Discern and Judge. Act Of Judging is called Criticism. The earliest , and enduringly important, treatise of theoretical criticism was Aristotle’s Poetics . Among The most influential theoretical in the following centuries were Longinus in Greece; Horace in Rome ; Boileau and Sainte –Beuve in France .

What is Criticism ?

Literary Criticism is concerned with defining , classifying,

analyzing ,interpreting, and evaluating work of literature.

Literary Criticism

Practical

Theoretical

Impressioni-stic

Criticism

Judicial Criticism

Practical Criticism

Impressionistic Criticism

Impressionistic Criticism means personal Impression. Impressionistic Criticism attempts to represent in word the felt qualities of a particular passage or work, and to express the responses that the work directly evoke from the critic.

As William Hazlitt put it in his essay “On Genius and Common Sense” (1824):

“ You decide from feeling not for reason: that is for impression of number of thing on the mind….

Though you may not be able to analyze or account for it in the several particulars ”

It is what happens a critic is reading a piece of work and critiques it on he or she is feeling instead using the principles.

Mimetic Pragmatic

Expressive Objective

Types of Critical Theory and Practical

Expressive Criticism

A definition of term Expressive Criticism is Presented. The term emphasizes the author as creator of the work, stress the artist’s emotions and beliefs, and resume that the work contains inadvertently or not the revelation of the author’s life . The three key concepts associated with this movements are …Imagination, Genius, Emotion

Objective Criticism

Objective Criticism approach the work of literature as something which stand free from what is often called an “extrinsic” relationship to the poet, or the audience, or to the environing world.