Literary Criticism

Types of literary Criticism

1. Legislative Criticism
2. Judicial Criticism
3. Theoretical Criticism
4. Evaluative Criticism
5. historical Criticism
6. Comparative Criticism
7. Descriptive Criticism
8. Impressionistic Criticism
9. Textual or Ontological Criticism
10. psychological criticism
11. Sociological and Marxist Criticism: 20th century. examines a work of art with reference to the social milieu of the author. Wilber Scott says, “Art is not created in a vacuum: it is the work not simply of a person, but of an author fixed in time and space, answering to a community of which he is an important, and articulate part.”
12. Archetypal Criticism: totemic, mythological, ritualistic criticism.
    1. It interprets the text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes.
    2. It was most popular during the 50’s and 60s, at the time of Carl Jung, a psychologist.

Schools of Criticism:

1. Romantic School of Criticism
2. Descriptive School of critiism
3. Historical criticism
4. Shakespeare Criticism

Greek and Roman critics and their works:

1. Influential Greek Philosophers and their Timeline
2. Influential Roman Philosophers and Their Timeline
3. Socrates
4. Plato (427-348 BC)
5. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)
6. Longinus
7. Horace

Elizabethan Criticism

1. George Gascoigne
2. William Webbe
3. George Puttenham
4. Philip Sidney
5. Thomas Campion
6. Samuel Daniel

Enlightenment Age

1. John Dryden
2. Alexander Pope
3. Samuel Johnson
4. Thomas Hobbes
5. John Locke
6. Glambattista Vico
7. Edmund Burke
8. Edward Gibbon
9. Adam Smith

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Romantic Critics

1. William Wordsworth
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Roman Catholic

1. George Eliot
2. Friedrich Nietsche
3. G.M Hopkins
4. Henry James
5. Matthew Arnold
6. T.S Eliot
7. I.A Richards
8. Irving Babbit

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Major Texts

1. The Republic – Plato
2. Book III
3. Book X
4. Poetics – Aristotle.
5. On the Sublime – Longinus
6. An Apology for Poetry – Sir Philip Sidney.
7. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy – John Dryden.
8. An Essay on Criticism – Alexander Pope
9. Biographia Literaria – S.T. Coleridge
10. Preface to Lyrical Ballads – William Wordsworth
11. The Study of Poetry – Mathew Arnold
12. Essays of T.S.Eliot
13. Death of the Author Who is an Author? – Michel Foucault
14. Structure, Sign and Play of Human Sciences – Jacques Darrida
15. The Formation of the Intellectuals – Antonio Gramsci
16. Resonance and Wonder (From Learning to Curse)- Stephen Greenblatt
17. Imagined Communities – Benedict Anderson
18. Cultural Identity and Diaspora (from Theorizing Diaspora)  – Stuart Hall
19. The Diasporic Imaginary: Theorizing the Indian Diaspora – Vijay Mishra
20. ‘Introduction’ to Orientalism – Edward Said
21. Can Subaltern Speak – Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak
22. The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon
23. Gender Trouble – Judith Butler
24. Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis (The Ecocriticism Reader)