Introducing Literary Criticism A Graphic - Owen Holland 2015

Introducing Literary Criticism A Graphic - Owen Holland 2015

What Is Literary Criticism?

For All Time?

Aesthetics vs Morality

Learning through Imitation

The Critic as Chameleon

A (Very) Brief History of Literary Criticism

The Theory of Forms

The Three Unities

Catharsis

Defenders of Poetry: Sidney and Shelley

Pope’s Criticism

Ancients and Moderns

Neoclassicism

The English Civil War and Literary Battle Lines

The Romantic Individual

Coleridge and Wordsworth: Romanticizing English Literature

The Function of Criticism

The Development of “English Literature” as a Discipline

Attacks on a Professional Literary Discipline

Aestheticism

The Critic as Artist

T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Critic

Modernism

Woolf and the Struggle of the Female Author

Some 20th-Century Approaches: Three Types of Formalism

Practical Criticism

New Criticism

Russian Formalism

From Literary Criticism to Literary Theory

Structuralism

Applications of Structuralism

From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism

Marxist Literary Theory

Psychoanalysis

Some Versions of Historicism

New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

Feminism

Intersectionality

Gender Studies

Key Figures in the Development of Gay and Lesbian Studies

Homosexual Identity and Critical Re-Readings

Postcolonial Studies

Can the Master’s Tools Dismantle the Master’s House?

Orientalism

Ecocriticism

Concluding Remarks

Glossary