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*'''Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction (~360 BC-present)''' | *'''Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction (~360 BC-present)''' | ||
An example of Moral Criticism can be found in the works of Plato and Aristotle. Plato’s book The Republic was an example of some of the earliest literary criticism. [[ | An example of Moral Criticism can be found in the works of Plato and Aristotle. Plato’s book The Republic was an example of some of the earliest literary criticism. [[Aristotle's Poetics]] was another early writing that gave Moral Criticism a start and has continued since. | ||
*'''Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism (1930s-present)''' | *'''Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism (1930s-present)''' | ||
Some of works that are considered to be good examples of Formalism, New Criticism, and Neo –Aristotelian Criticism are written by authors many authors. Formalist critics, Roman Jakobson and Viktor Shklovsky are two of the most well-known for this type. Jakobson’s Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics, and Sholovsky’s Theory of Prose are examples of Formalist Criticism. , [[Cleanth Brooks]], [[David Daiches]], John Crowe Ransome, and [[T. S. Eliot]] are all authors where examples of New Criticism can be found. Ransome’s book The New Criticism, or Eliot’s essay Tradition and the Individual Talent provide some of the best examples of New Criticism. R.S. Crane’s Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern, and Wayne C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction are works that can be read to get a better understanding on the subject of Neo-Aristotelian Criticism. | Some of works that are considered to be good examples of Formalism, New Criticism, and Neo –Aristotelian Criticism are written by authors many authors. Formalist critics, Roman Jakobson and Viktor Shklovsky are two of the most well-known for this type. Jakobson’s Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics, and Sholovsky’s Theory of Prose are examples of Formalist Criticism. , [[Cleanth Brooks]], [[David Daiches]], John Crowe Ransome, and [[T. S. Eliot]] are all authors where examples of New Criticism can be found. Ransome’s book The New Criticism, or Eliot’s essay Tradition and the Individual Talent provide some of the best examples of New Criticism. R.S. Crane’s Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern, and Wayne C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction are works that can be read to get a better understanding on the subject of Neo-Aristotelian Criticism. | ||
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Two important theorists form the framework of structuralism are Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. Syntactic Structures, written by Noam Chomsky, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye, and The Elementary Structure of Kinship by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] are good sources for better understanding on Structuralism. | Two important theorists form the framework of structuralism are Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. Syntactic Structures, written by Noam Chomsky, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye, and The Elementary Structure of Kinship by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] are good sources for better understanding on Structuralism. | ||
*'''New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)''' | *'''New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)''' | ||
New Historicism has been studied and explored extensively in many works. | New Historicism has been studied and explored extensively in many works. Clifford Geertz’s The Interpretation of Cultures or Pierre Bourdieu’s Outline of a Theory of Practice are good places to start when researching important examples of New Historicism literature. Stephen Greenblatt, who coined the phrase “New Historicism”, wrote The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance, another good source for information on this form of literary criticism. | ||
*'''Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)''' | *'''Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)''' | ||
*'''Post-Colonial Criticism (1990s-present)''' | *'''Post-Colonial Criticism (1990s-present)''' | ||