Biographical criticism is the theory that literature can be best understood as a product of the individual authors life story and a response to the particular events of the authors life at the time of composition.

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Biographical criticism is the theory that literature can be best understood as a product of the individual author’s life story and a response to the particular events of the author’s life at the time of composition.

A	True
B	False
C	Either A or B
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Formally, biographical criticism assumes the author’s life, thoughts, and feelings of the author heavily influences the text. Therefore, biographical theorists believe that it is necessary to study the life of the author in order to truly understand the text.

Detailed explanation-2: -Historical / Biographical critics see works as the reflection of an author’s life and times (or of the characters’ life and times). H/B approach deems it necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand the work(s).

Detailed explanation-3: -Proponents:-Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets (1779–81) was the first thorough-going exercise in biographical criticism, the attempt to relate a writer’s background and life to his works.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most of literary works can be analysed in the light of historical-biographical method. A reader/a critic studies the work in accordance with the period in which the work is produced. Thus, the values and perception of the reader’s own age are put aside.

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