Although Sula moves between many different characters‘ perspectives, it is almost entirely told from thepoint of view of women living in the Bottom. Often, the men in the novel can‘t be ―pinned down‖ for long:their jobs keep them away from home (Wiley Wright), or their desire for independence leads them toabandon their families (Jude Greene, … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
American playwright Eugene O‘ Neill‘s ―Mourning Becomes Electra‖ is a continuation of the Greektradition. It is rare to find two principal complexes ―Electra‖ and ―Oedipus‖ in one work of art. Here wehave both as parallel themes. The tragic implications as will be observed are of the kind that generatesemotions of purgation and emotional relief. However, … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
It is unquestionably true that Madwoman in the Attic is an ambitious and substantial work of criticism andscholarship. It offers important feminist rereadings of many of the major texts by women writers in the 19thcentury. In it, Gilbert and Gubar demonstrate an impressive command not only of the primary texts but alsoof the biographies, letters, … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
Richards was that Cambridge professor of criticism who turned literary criticism upside down in the 1930’s.He inspired the New Criticism and won the admiration of poets such as T.S. Eliot. Trained originally inpsychology, Richards penetrated into a new level of hard-headed thinking to literary criticism, pushingthrough the effusive waffling of critics past. Richards’ work dealt … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and interpreted withinthe context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic. Based on the literary criticism ofStephen Greenblatt and influenced by the philosophy of Michel Foucault, New Historicism acknowledgesnot only that a work of … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
Cultural materialism is one of the major anthropological perspectives for analysing human societies. Itincorporates ideas from Marxism, cultural evolution, and cultural ecology. Materialism contends that thephysical world impacts and sets constraints on human behaviour. The materialists believe that humanbehaviour is part of nature and therefore, it can be understood by using the methods of natural … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define andestablish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminist criticism is concernedwith “the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic,political, social, and psychological oppression of women”. This school of theory looks … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
New Criticism is a movement in 20th-century literary criticism that arose in reaction to those traditional ―extrinsic‖ approaches that saw a text as making a moral or philosophical statement or as an outcome of social, economic, political, historical, or biographical phenomena. New Criticism holds that a text must be evaluated apart from its context; failure … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
A Study of Poetry’ is a critical essay by Matthew Arnold. In this essay Arnold criticizes the art of poetry aswell as the art of criticism. Arnold believes that the art of poetry is capable of high destinies. It is the art inwhich the idea itself is the fact. He says that we should understand … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy gives an explicit account of neo-classical theory of art in general. Dryden is aneoclassic critic, and as such he deals in his criticism with issues of form and morality in drama. However,he is not a rule bound critic, tied down to the classical unities or to notions of what constitutes … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন