English Literary Theory & Criticism [Hardcover] [May 01, 2014] Dr. Yashodhara Prasa

Literary theory and literary criticism are interpretive tools that help us think more deeply and insightfully about the literature that we read. Over time, different schools of literary criticism have developed, each with its own approaches to the act of reading. Lit- erary criticism goes all the way back to the days of Plato. Through the years, it has devel- oped and grown, and ultimately provides us with parameters on how to study literature. Because there are a million different ways to dissect written works such as novels or po- ems, literary criticism provides some general guidelines to help us analyze, deconstruct, interpret and evaluate. The book presents lit- erary schools, forms, criticism and techniques from the earliest times of literary and critical terms and ideas.