MEG 05 Literary criticism and theory

The entire course has been divided into two parts first part discusses Literary Criticism and the second part talks about Literary Theory.

LITERARY CRITICISM	LITERARY THEORY
A set of rules and regulations- to evaluate and interpret literary works	A set of principles uses for practical reading of a text like a poem, novel, etc
It tells us the meaning of a literary work.	It tells us how to read a text, how to approach a text
It is originated from the classical period	it is approximately originated in the 1950s
Classical criticism, romantic Criticism, Newcriticism are examples	Structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, and Feminism are the examples
Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Dryden, and Arnold are some contributors of literary criticism	Ferdinand de Saussureure, Jaques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Roman Jacobson, Semon de Bouviour are the some contributors to literary thiories.

FIRST PART

Literary Criticism is a set of rules and regulations that can be used for the evaluation and interpretation of literary works.
Literary criticism is the analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of a literary work like a novel, poem, short story, etc.
It evaluates any literary works by using particular rules and regulations created by greater masters like Aristotle, Plato, Sydney, Arnold, etc.
Literary Criticism interprets the meaning of a literary work and bridges the gap between the writer and the reader.
Evaluating a particular work is the primary function of literary criticism and it discloses whether it is good or bad.
It tells us what are the good and bad qualities of a literary workes.
Literary criticism helps the readers to find out the hidden meaning of literary works.

The first part of MEG 05, LITERARY CRITICISM discusses the following areas:

Contributions of Classical Critics– Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Longinus, Dante, etc.
Romantic Criticism– Contributions of Wordsworth, Coleridge, PB Shelly.
New Criticism– Contributions of I A Richards, TS Eliot, FR Leavis, JC Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, W.K Whimsatt,

Literary theory is a set of principles that tells us how to read a text and how to interpret work and how approach a literary work.
In other words, Literary theory is the ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of a text.
Literary theory approximately originated in the 1950s.
The majority of the theories originated from Frech soil and then spread to other countries.
Theory never tells us the meaning of a poem or novel, instead, it tells us different ways to reach meaning.
The literary theory does not interpret the meaning of a text, instead, it tells us how to interpret a text.
Literary theories are the Lenses through which we can visualize literary works.
Each theory can be considered as a different lens through which we can read the same text with different perspectives and reach different meanings.

The second section talks about different literary theories like

MEG 05 Literary Criticism and Theory has been divided into six blocks

Block 01	An Introduction
Block 02	Classical Criticism
Block 03	Romantic Criticism
Block 04	New Criticism
Block 05	Marxist View of Literature
Block 06	Feminist Theories
Block 07	Deconstruction
Block 08	Contemporary Literary theory

An introduction to MEG 05