ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Literary criticism is the comparison, analysis, interpretation, and/or evaluation of works of literature. Literary criticism is essentially an opinion, supported by evidence, relating to theme, style, setting or historical or political context.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are many types of literary criticism. Some of the more common are traditional criticism, sociological criticism, new criticism, reader-response criticism, Feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, and media criticism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Literary criticism is the term given to studies that analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of literature. Literary criticisms may examine a particular literary work (like a play, short story, or novel), or it may look at an author’s writings as a whole. Finding literary criticisms can be challenging.

Detailed explanation-4: -To analyze one literary work, more than one approach can be applied. This article is an example of analyzing a poem, Mattew Arnold’s Dover Beach from three different critical positions, the formalist, the sociological, and psychoanalytical.