Literary Criticism And Literary Theory

You may have heard the popular phrase ‘art imitates life’, a shorter version of the idea featured in Aristotle’s Poetics. Aristotle argued that the purpose of poetry, as an art form, is to imitate the world around us through language. This is an early example of a literary theory and has been used as a way to interpret works of literature. Book Literary Criticism Literary Theory

Literary Criticism is the practice of discussing, analysing, interpreting, and comparing works of literature. Literary Theory consists of the many academic, philosophical and political frameworks that literary critics can use to critique literature.

Surely literary criticism has many purposes. It allows for us to understand a text on a deeper level, taking into account the context in which it was written and allow us to relate it to the wider social, political and economic climate of its time. It also allows old texts to take on new meanings through the years as theory develops.

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