History And Principles Of Literary Criticism – By -Satish Kumar

ISBN-978-93-86241-89-4 , HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM * DR. SATISH KUMAR, 210.00
ISBN-978-93-88297-42-4 , HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM With Hindi * DR. SATISH KUMAR, 185.00

Nature and Functions of Criticism, Ancient Greek Criticism: Plato, General Introduction , Life and Works Of Authors , Summary , Important Questions And Answers, Objective Type Questions And Answers

In this book, Narain’s History and Principles of Literary Criticism an attempt has been made to trace the origin and development of criticism from ancient time to the modern age. The critical theories and principles of major critics from Plato to I.A.Richards and Chicago critics have been minutely analyzed. What distinguishes this book is that the shifts and changes in critical concepts which highlighted certain epochs as Renaissance, Restoration,The Neo-classic Age, Romanticism, The Victorian Age, and The Modern Age have been discussed in detail.

CONTENTS:

The Nature and Functions of Criticism

Ancient Greek Criticism: Plato

Ancient Greek Criticism: Aristotle

The Roam Classicists: Horace

Longinus: The First Romantic Critic

Dante (1265-1321)

Criticism in England

The Renaissance Criticism

Ben Johson (1573-1637)

Neoclassicism in English Literary Criticism

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Dryden’s Contemporaries

Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

The Romantic Criticism

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

S.T.Coleridge (1772-1834)

Shelley and Keats

William Hazlitt, Lamb and Quincey

E.A.Poe

The Victorian Age

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Art and Morality

Art for Art’s Sake

Henry James (1843-1916)

Modern Criticism

T.S.Eliot (1889-1965)

Ivor Armstrong Richards

Frank Raymond Leavis

The New Criticism and The Chicago Critics