DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
(Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University)
Name :- chintavan n bhungani
Semester:- M.A SEM 1
Roll no:- 06
Paper
no:- 03 literary theory and criticism
Enrollment no:- PG15101006
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Topic:- criticism and its
terms.
Introduction.
The term is applied to a number of works in drama and
prosefictionwhich have in common the sense that the humanconditionisessentially
absurd, and that this condition can be adequatelyrepresentedonly in works of
literature that are themselves absurd. So here we discuss various terms or
types of criticism
Criticism
means……
“Criticism
is a branch of study concerned with defining,
Classifying, expounding and evaluating work of literature”.
Types of Criticism.
Criticism, or
more specifically literary criticism, is
the overall term for studies concerned with defining, classifying, analyzing,
interpreting, and50 CRITICISM
Evaluating works
of literature. Theoretical criticism proposes
an explicit theory of
literature, in the sense of general principles, together with a set of terms,
distinctions, and categories, to be applied to identifying and analyzing works
of literature, as well as the criteria (the
standards, or norms) by which these works and their writers are to be
evaluated.
There
are many types of criticism like…
·
Practical
Criticism or Applied Criticism.
Practical
Criticism or Applied Criticism concerns itself with the discussion of
particular works and writers.
For
Example….
Among
the more influential work of Applied criticism In England and America are the
literary essay of Dryden in the Restoration.
‘Lives of the Poet’.
.Impressionistic
Criticism.
Impressionistic
Criticism means personal impression. Impressionistic Criticism attempts to
represent in words the felt qualities of a particular work and to express the
attitude and feelingfulresponses, the impression, which the work directly
evokes from the critic.
For
Example….
On
William Hazlitt put it in his essay… “On
Genius and Common Sense”.
·
Judicial
Criticism.
Judicial
Criticism on the other hand not merely to communicate but to analyzed and explains
the effect of a work by reference to its subject.
1).Pragmatic
Criticism.
Pragmatic
criticism is concerned first leading, with ethical impact any literary text has
upon an audience. Itbelieve that art. The works as something which is
constructed in order to achieve certain effect on the audience.
2).Expressive
Criticism.
Expressive
criticism treats a literary work primarily in relation to the author .It
defined poetry as an e expressive or overflow, or utterance of feelings
recollected in tranquility is taken as the ground idea of the expressive theory
of art.
3).Objective
Criticism.
Objective
Criticism approaches the work as something which stands free from poet
,audience ,and the environment world .It describes the literary products a self
enough object or as a analyzed and as difficulty ,coherence in terrify and the
interrelation of it’s part element.
4).Mimetic
Criticism.
‘Mimetic’
is derived from the Greek word ‘Imitation’.’Mimetic’ means creative
copy.Mimetic criticism views the literary work as an imitation or reflection or
representation of the world and human life and the primarily criterion applied
to a work is that of the ‘truth’ of its representation to the subjects it
representation, or should represents.
·
Plot:-
The order of a
unified plot, Aristotle pointed out, is a continuous sequence of beginning,
middle, and end. The beginning initiates the main action in a way which
makes us look forward to something more; the middle presumes what has
gone before and requires something to follow; and theendfollows from
what has gone before but requires nothing more; we feel satisfied that the plot
is complete. The structural beginning (sometimes also called the
"initiating action," or "point of attack") need not be the initial
stage of the action that is brought to a climax in the narrative or play. The
epic, for example, plunges in medias res, "in the middle of
things" (see epic),many short stories begin at the point of the
climax itself, and the writer of drama often captures our attention in the
opening scene with a representative incident, related to and closely preceding
the event which precipitates the central situation or conflict. Thus
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet opens with street fight between the
servants of two great houses, and his Hamlet with the apparition of a
ghost; the exposition of essential prior matters—the feud
betweentheCapulets and Montague’s, or the posture of affairs in the Royal House
of Denmark—Shakespeare weaves rapidly and skillfully into the dialogue of these
startling initial scenes. In the novel, the modern drama, and especially the
motion picture, such exposition is sometimes managed by flashbacks:
interpolated narratives or scenes (often justified, or naturalized, as a
memory, a reverie, or a confession by one of the characters) which represent
events that happened before the time at which the work opened. Arthur Miller’s
play Death of a Salesman (1949) and Ingmar Bergman's film Wild
Strawberries make persistent and skillful
Use of this
device. So
it’s a style of plot in any form of literature.
·
THREE UNITIES-TIME PLACE AND ACTION:-
In large part
because of the potent example of Shakespeare, many of whose plays represent
frequent changes of place and the passage of many years, the unities of place
and time never dominated English neoclassicism as they did criticism in Italy
and France. A final blow was the famous attack against them, and against the
principle of dramatic verisimilitude on which they were based, in Samuel
Johnsons "Preface to Shakespeare" (1765). Since then in England, the
unities of place and time (as distinguished from the unity of action) have been
regarded as entirely optional devices, available to the playwright to achieve
special effects of dramatic concentration.
On the assumption that verisimilitude—the achievement of an illusion of reality
in the audience of a stage play—requires that the action represented by a play
approximate the actual conditions of the staging of the play, they imposed the
requirement of the "unity of place” (that the action represented be
limited to a single location) and the requirement of the "unity of
time" (that the time represented be limited to the two or three hours it
takes to act the play, or at most to a single day of either twelve or twenty-four
hours).In the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, critics of the drama in Italy and France added to Aristotle’s
unity of action, which he describes in his Poetics, two other unities, to
constitute one of the rules of drama known as "the three unities."
·
TRAGEDY
When flexibly
managed, however, Aristotle’s discussions apply in some part to many tragic
plots, and his analytic concepts serve as a suggestive starting point for
identifying the differentiae of various non- Aristotelian modes of tragic
construction. In the
subsequent two thousand years and more, many new and artistically effective
types of serious plots ending in a catastrophe have been developed—types that
Aristotle had no way of foreseeing. The many attempts to stretch Aristotle’s
analysis to apply to later tragic forms serve merely to blur his critical
categories and to obscure important differences among diverse types of plays,
all of which have proved to be dramatically effective. Aristotle based his theory on
induction from the only examples available to him, the tragedies of Greek
dramatists such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. More precise and detailed
discussions of the tragic form properly begin—although they should not end—with
Aristotle‘s classic analysis in the Poetics (fourth century B.C.). The term is broadly applied to
literary, and especially to dramatic, representations of serious actions which
eventuate in a disastrous conclusion for the protagonist (the chief character).
·
Chorus
Among the ancient Greeks
the chorus was a group of people, wearing masks, which sang or chanted verses
while performing dancelike maneuver sat religious festivals. A similar chorus
played a part in Greek tragedies, where (in the plays of Aeschylus and
Sophocles) they served mainly as commentator son the dramatic actions and
events who expressed traditional36 CHRONICLE PLAYS moral, religious, and social
attitudes; beginning with Euripides, however, the chorus assumed primarily a
lyrical function. The Greek ode, as developed by Pindar, was also chanted by a
chorus; see ode. Roman playwrights such as Seneca took over the chorus
from the Greeks, and in the mid-sixteenth century some English dramatists (for
example, Norton and Sackville in Gorbuduc) imitated the Seneca chorus.
The classical type of chorus was never widely adopted by English dramatic writers. John Milton, however, included a chorus in Samson Agonists (1671),
Shelley in Prometheus
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Unbound (1820), and Thomas Hardy in The Dynasts (1904-08);
more recently. S. Eliot made effective use of the classical chorus in his
religious tragedy Murder in the Cathedral (1935). The use of a chorus of
singers and dancers survives also in opera and in musical comedies. For the
alternative use of the term "chorus" to signify a recurrent stanza in
a song, see refrain. Refer to A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, Dithyramb, Tragedy
and Comedy (1927), and the Dramatic Festivals of Athens
Conclusion
In short, Criticism means ‘To Analyze’, ‘To
criticize ’, and ‘To Judge ’.various types of criticism performed different
way. And critics who imagine his own different thing from writer are
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