Formalism and New Criticism
Reflects on the Evolution of Theory
Classical critics
Plato and Aristotle
What rose in importance because of social/political/cultural needs?
English
Spoken or written literature aimed to critically or controversially attack someone or something in a strong manner.
Polemic
Who's book was published nearly 30 years ago?
Eagleton
Middle Ages Criticism
works read allegorically, connecting literature to theology.
What helped discipline and socialize the working and middle classes?
English
Who believes that Dostoevsky’s mature works were fundamentally ideological novels(literature that requires an understanding of their polemical agendas)
Frank
According ______, literature is a series of organizations that very depending on laws/structures/devices.
The Formalists
Who talks about M. H. Abrams’s heuristic device
Leitch
Who argues that the rise of English was less about "appreciating beauty" and more about social control?
Eagleton
(1957) Joseph Frank’s interest in Dostoevsky’s works started to grow, bridging together his understanding between different approaches which are?
A purely formal aesthetic approach
A social-ideological approach (criticism that favors thematics and philosophical assumptions as context to a piece of literature)