Literary Criticism: is a disciplined activity that attempts to describe, study, justify, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art.
Literary Theory is set of principles or assumptions (conscious or unconscious) that undergirds one’s understanding and interpretation of language, the construction of meaning, art culture, aesthetics, and ideological positions. It is concerned with our understanding of the ideas, concepts, and intellectual assumptions upon which our interpretation of a text is based.
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Last class one of my classmates said that we should care about the text (the work) in literary criticism not about the auther. what I want to say is I disagree with this idea because the auther as a human being is affected by the enviroment around him/her, so I think we should be very careful about the auther, his/her enviroment, and his/her personality because all of these factors affect the text. I think also that the reason beyond the diffrances between the texts is that we see the auther and his/her social situation through them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with my classmate Hassna in this point and i think we should be care about the auther not about text becouse auther is a creature that affected by the soceity around him.
ReplyDeleteliterary criticism is the study evaluation and interpretation of letrature and it is attempt to understand the creative writing,the letrature of an author.literary criticism published in essay or book form.
ReplyDeleteIagree with the idea that we should be care of the author because the text reflect the author identity and emotions which affected by the environment in which he lives.
structuralism:is an approsch to the human sciences` that attempets to analyze a specific fild it begin in liguistics with the work of Ferdinand and it is appeard in academia in the second half of 20th century , and it grew to become one of the most poular approches in academic fields concerned with the analysis of languge and culture.
ReplyDeleteHi everyone, I agree with you hasna because I think when the author writes his literary texts he expresses his feeling and emotion , also he is affected by all the circumstances around him .
ReplyDeleteI think literary criticism enable us to think more deeply about the text we read,then if we analyze it,we cankeep multiple perceptions of the text in our minds ,shaping our own opinion.
ReplyDeleteThe other point i want to say is that the good critic in my opinion should be well-acquainted with many literary texts.
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ReplyDeleteHi students,the literary theory is a set of principles and theories .
ReplyDeleteThe literary criticism is the application of this theory .
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteThe author is one of the important elements of any piece of literature that he writs because he reflects his socity,so I agree with you Hasna.
I: Literary criticism
ReplyDeleteLiterary criticism is fundamentally the estimation of the value of a particular work or body of work on such grounds as: the personal and/or cultural significance of the themes and the uses of language of a text; the insights and impact of a text; and the aesthetic production (or, performance) of the text; particularly as these areas are seen to be mutually dependent, supportive or inflective. The word 'criticism' has ordinary-use negative connotations, and to an extent that is right: for literary criticism is part of the disciplining of discourse generally and of what is considered literature in particular. One patrols the boundaries of good writing, admitting or excluding, determining what should be thought about a text, and why, what personal and cultural value should be placed on it.
Judgments of value are not simple, however. They require that one consider what constitutes value, what the personal and social value of literature is, what the value of 'the aesthetic' is. And they require that one interpret the text. As texts judged to be of high literary value tend to be marked by complexity and even ambiguity, and to yield diverse interpretations, judgment may ultimately require a theory of interpretation, or at least careful attention to the question of what constitutes, guides, and legitimates interpretation.
II: Theory
Theory is the process of understanding what the nature of literature is, what functions it has, what the relation of text is to author, to reader, to language, to society, to history. It is not judgment but understanding of the frames of judgment.
III: theory itself
Theory, however, particularly as "a theory of X," tends to operate within a frame of values and expectations itself. Full understanding requires one think as fully as possible about the sets of expectations, assumptions and values of theory and theorizing, and this (always incompletable) exercise I think of as theory itself
When we critique the work of any literary critic must do it from our point of view without any prejudice to the author, and there are many steps we should follow them in order to product our work successful, first we should study the generation in which literary work was done, and we must know customs and traditions of that period, and then We analyze a literary work as we understand it depending in our competence , and also we do not forget to analyze the text from theme and structure.
ReplyDeletei wanna to ask you something , when you want to write something (prose or verse ) you write it according to what ? Are you effect by the world around you ? Or do you write what is in your mind just ?
ReplyDeleteaccording to me , i'm a Human may be i will effect about what is happening in my society , and I could be under the influence of any event around me , so that my literary work will be according to my tradition and society.
i hop to see your comments.....
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ReplyDeletestructuralism: it is a movement started in France in 1950 dealt with language and meaning, depends on (sign of language), it beleives the relationship between the word and the picture.
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ReplyDeleteThe majer differances between structuralism (s)and poststrructuralism (ps)are in language and in system.
I am going to explain the difference in language . according to (s}it is rigid while ib (ps)it is flexable
structuralism and poststructuralism
ReplyDeletestructuralis aims to understand the individual item by placing it in the context of the larger structure to which it belongs . for example,they analyze a particular story,novel into a large structure such as the actual narrative.structuralism focus on language as apart of system of signs.
poststructralism derived from philosophy ,so they think that truth is never acheived in literature.they believe also of multiple meaning of the literary text.
Literary criticism is the act of interpreting literature.
ReplyDeleteAuthors present us with work that can have multiple meanings, expecting us to consider thoughtfully--to interpret. Writers and critics build on each others' understanding of a work of literature in a kind of dialog. Noted authors often have a body of criticism attached to their work. Critics evaluate and debate the ideas of fellow critics. Good criticism can help us develop a better understanding of a work. It can help us develop a point of view about a work, whether or not we agree with the opinions of the critic.
As you work with literary criticism in your writing it is important that you incorporate your own reactions and points of view.
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature
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ReplyDeleteModernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.
ReplyDeleteModernism rejected the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and also that of the existence of a compassionate, all-powerful Creator.[2][3] This is not to say that all modernists or modernist movements rejected either religion or all aspects of Enlightenment thought, rather that modernism can be viewed as a questioning of the axioms of the previous age
Literary criticism is the study, 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.
ReplyDeleteWhether or not literary criticism should be considered a separate field of inquiry from literary theory, or conversely from book reviewing, is a matter of some controversy. For example, the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary thinking and Criticism draws no distinction between literary theory and literary criticism, and almost always uses the terms together to describe the same concept. Some critics consider literary criticism a practical application of literary theory, because criticism always deals directly with particular literary works, while theory may be more general or abstract.
Literary criticism is often published in essay or book form. Academic literary critics teach in literature departments and publish in academic journals, and more popular critics publish their criticism in broadly circulating periodicals such as the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Yorker
Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses. One may psychoanalyze a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projections of the author's psyche.
ReplyDeleteOne interesting facet of this approach is that it validates the importance of literature, as it is built on a literary key for the decoding. Freud himself wrote, "The dream-thoughts which we first come across as we proceed with our analysis often strike us by the unusual form in which they are expressed; they are not clothed in the prosaic language usually employed by our thoughts, but are on the contrary represented symbolically by means of similes and metaphors, in images resembling those of poetic speech" (26).