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*Henry Reynolds: "Mythomystes" | *Henry Reynolds: "Mythomystes" | ||
==Enlightment Critics=== | ===Enlightment Critics=== | ||
From Milton in England to Henry David Thoreau and even later with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, these authors frequently questioned and criticized literature, Arts , Social Norms essentially expanding their predecessors platforms.<ref>van Gelder, G. J. H. (1982), Beyond the Line: Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and Unity of the Poem, Brill Publishers, pp. 1–2, ISBN 90-04-06854-6</ref>. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that focused on changing society through the use of reason and logic instead of relying on faith and religion. As such, critics during the Enlightenment criticized literature through this lens, focusing on how literature could change society using logic and facts rather than chalking everything up to religion, faith, or God. <ref>Kors, Alan Charles. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. Print.</ref><br /> | From Milton in England to Henry David Thoreau and even later with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, these authors frequently questioned and criticized literature, Arts , Social Norms essentially expanding their predecessors platforms.<ref>van Gelder, G. J. H. (1982), Beyond the Line: Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and Unity of the Poem, Brill Publishers, pp. 1–2, ISBN 90-04-06854-6</ref>. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that focused on changing society through the use of reason and logic instead of relying on faith and religion. As such, critics during the Enlightenment criticized literature through this lens, focusing on how literature could change society using logic and facts rather than chalking everything up to religion, faith, or God. <ref>Kors, Alan Charles. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. Print.</ref><br /> | ||
====Examples of Enlightenment Criticism==== | |||
*Thomas Hobbes: "Answer to Davenant's preface to Gondibert" | |||
*Pierre Corneille: "Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place" | |||
*John Dryden: "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy" | |||
*Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux: "The Art of Poetry" | |||
*John Locke: "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" | |||
*Samuel Johnson: "On Fiction, Rasselas, Preface to Shakespeare" | |||
*Edward Young: "Conjectures on Original Composition" | |||
*Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: "Laocoön" | |||
*Joshua Reynolds: "Discourses on Art" | |||
*Richard "Conversation" Sharp: "Letters & Essays in Prose & Verse" | |||
*Immanuel Kant: "Critique of Judgment" | |||
*Mary Wollstonecraft: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" | |||
*William Blake: "The Marriage of Heaven or Hell"; "Letter to Thomas Butts; Annotations to Reynolds' Discourses"; "A Descriptive Catalogue; A Vision of the Last Judgment"; "On Homer's Poetry" | |||
==Types of literary criticism== | ==Types of literary criticism== | ||