Week 04: The Function of Criticism

Contents of the Lesson:

  1. Author vs Critic
  2. Creative vs critical activity
  3. Role of a Critic
  4. Real Criticism
  5. Power of man and Power of Climate
  6. Epoch of Concentration and Epoch of Expansion 
  7. Disinterestedness of critic
  8. Universality of literature 
  9. Duty of a critic

Material:

Attached herewith

For Further Reading:

A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present by M. A. R. Habib