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An Introduction to Literary Criticism, give a vivid account of literary criticism, its types, main ideas and concepts. Substantially derived from various authoritative sources, the following topics make core of the study -Introduction; Relationalism; Greek Dramatic Criticism; The Medieval Drama; The Medieval Drama; Phenomenology of Mind; On Scientific Knowledge; and Italian Dramatic Criticism of the Renaissance.
Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice, give a vivid account of literary criticism, its types, main ideas and concepts. Substantially derived from various authoritative sources, the following topics make core of the study -Introduction; feminist Critical Theory; French Feminism in the 19th century; new Historicism; Deconstruction; Postmodernism, reader-response Criticism; Cultural Materialism; and Freudian Literary Criticism.
From the Preface:Literary criticism may be defined as the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals. Though the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always, and have not always been, theorists. Whether or not literary criticism should be considered a separate field of inquiry from literary ...