The doctrine that the priest, at the sacrament of the Mass, miraculously changes the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of the Christ.…
This theory claims excessive authority for the priesthood. For example: It claims supernatural powers of the priests.
Platonic Idealism African-American Literary Theory American Pragmatism Cognetive Literary Theory Cambridge Criticism Critical Race Theory Culture Study Darwinian Literary Studies Deconstruction Descriptive Poetics Feminist Literary…
Literary Criticism Definitions “Criticism is the play of the mind on the aesthetic qualities of literature, having for its objects an interpretation of literary values.”…
Biographia Literaria – S.T. Coleridge Chapter XIII Three parts of the Chapter: Philosophical (Continuation of Previous Chapter) Deals with the philosophy of Descartes, Transcendental idealism…
Second or other self or alternative self Cicero coined the term as a part of his psychological construct in 1st Century Rome. Freud considered the…
New Criticism 1920s-30s Specially an American Movement Pioneered by T.S Eliot and I.A Richardson until 1946s The term new criticism came to use after the…
People: Ferdinand De Saussure C.S. Peire Claude Levi Strass Vladimir Propp A.J Greimas Gerard Genette mikhail Bhakin Roland Berthes Everything has a structure, and the…
Formalism Dominated by American writers deals with particularly poetical language Russian Formalism Russian Formalism interested in the language of poetry. The Moscow Linguistic circle of…
Women Literary Studies Femicide, Feminism in India and UK Feminist Economics Feminist Movements and Idiologies Feminist Psychology Feminist Science Fiction Feminist Views on Pornography Feminist…