An Introduction to Literary Criticism Richard Dutton تحميل

YORK HANDBOOKS form a companion series to York Notes and are designed to meet the wider needs of students of English and related fields. Each volu. . .  me is a compact study of a given subject area, written by an authority with expreience in communicating the essential ideas to students at all levels. AN INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY CRITICISM provides a sound background to a subject that has received increasing emphasis in the study of literature in recent years. As a means of identifying the underlying principles of the subject, the author examines the manner in which successive eras and individual critics have applied differnt yardsticks by which to judge literary output. In this way the complexities of modern criticism are set in the perspective of its antecedents, and seen as only the most recent links in a chain of changing outlooks and methods of approach. The threads of this analysis are drawn together in the concluding chapter, which offers a blueprint for the practice of criticism.   Show.