Contemporary Literary Criticism

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• Literary criticism — Literature Major forms Novel · Poem · Drama Short story · Novella Genres Epic  …   Wikipedia

• LITERARY CRITICISM —    Japan has a rich heritage of literary criticism dating from early classical times, with the preface to the Kokinshu (ca. 920) addressing the meaning and function of poetry. During the Tokugawa period, Motoori Norinaga (1730–1801) wrote so… …   Japanese literature and theater

• Archetypal literary criticism — is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes (from the Greek archē , or beginning, and typos , or imprint) in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in a literary work. As a form… …   Wikipedia

• Chicago school (literary criticism) — The Chicago School of literary criticism was a form of criticism of English literature begun at the University of Chicago in the 1930s, which lasted until the 1950s. It was also called Neo Aristotelianism, due to its strong emphasis on… …   Wikipedia

• Samuel Johnson's literary criticism — PoetryJohnson s literature, especially his Lives of the Poets series, is marked by various opinions on what would make a poetic work excellent. He believed that the best poetry relied on contemporary language, and he disliked the use of… …   Wikipedia

• Literary theory — in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. [Culler 1997, p.1] However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes in addition to, or even instead of literary… …   Wikipedia

• criticism — criticism, critique, review, blurb, puff are comparable when meaning a discourse (as an essay or report) presenting one s conçlusions after examining a work of art and especially of literature. None of these terms has a clearly established and… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• literary periodicals — In comparison with Japan, France and even Russia, mainland China has a large number of literary periodicals. If we include academic journals of literary research as well as magazines of popular fiction, literary periodicals in 2001 numbered 346… …   Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

• literary theory —    Literary theory since the 1960s has sustained far more change than in the previous thirty years. After several decades of dominance by the New Critics and the close textual, practical readings recommended by the likes of F.R.Leavis, the 1960s… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• Contemporary philosophy — is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy. The phrase contemporary philosophy is a piece… …   Wikipedia

• Contemporary African Art — is an expression commonly used to defined the sum of styles and national productions of the African continent, the production of African artists, the production of Africa analyzed as a hole, the artistic, cultural and institutional dynamics of… …   Wikipedia