A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
A Reader’s Guide To Contemporary Literary Theory ( First Chapter )
The New Critics And Their Influence On The Democratization Of Education And Their Reaction Against Social Conditions
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The new critics in the 20th century; whether in England or in The United States, had goals to achieve be it social, economical, or educational. The one to have affected the critical views in the world was, Mathew Arnold, whose ideas were much centred about culture and specifying culture. After came T.S Eliot who had another point of view, the one that reacted against Mathew Arnold’s critics and ideas so he can come up with new critics and a new way to look at literature so he can eliminate the anarchy that Mathew Arnold has caused. There is also the so known I.A Richards and F.R Leavis, who were influenced by Mathew Arnold. In order to know more and understand well this views and how they helped change the world’s view about culture and literature, what leaving in a democratized society means; what is like to study literary texts and understand them, and how all these critics had a crucial role in democratizing education, we will try to analyse the first chapter of Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Theory and discuss in relation to the views it contains.
The new criticism’s history gets back to the middle of the 20th century, and “the hey-day of the New Criticism in American high schools and colleges was the Cold War decades between 1950 and the mid-seventies, doubtless because it offered a relatively straightforward and politically uncontroversial approach to the teaching of literature’’1.The ones that are behind this revolution of the critical views are mainly; I.A Richard and T.S Eliot and F.R Leavis, who were in their turn influenced by Mathew Arnold’s critics but every one of the above, had a different view of the way literature should be studied or taught. There is also their revolution against the social conditions that
The New Critics And Their Influence On The Democratization Of Education And Their Reaction Against Social Conditions
Bouchra Hallit
Groupe : 2
The new critics in the 20th century; whether in England or in The United States, had goals to achieve be it social, economical, or educational. The one to have affected the critical views in the world was, Mathew Arnold, whose ideas were much centred about culture and specifying culture. After came T.S Eliot who had another point of view, the one that reacted against Mathew Arnold’s critics and ideas so he can come up with new critics and a new way to look at literature so he can eliminate the anarchy that Mathew Arnold has caused. There is also the so known I.A Richards and F.R Leavis, who were influenced by Mathew Arnold. In order to know more and understand well this views and how they helped change the world’s view about culture and literature, what leaving in a democratized society means; what is like to study literary texts and understand them, and how all these critics had a crucial role in democratizing education, we will try to analyse the first chapter of Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Theory and discuss in relation to the views it contains.
The new criticism’s history gets back to the middle of the 20th century, and “the hey-day of the New Criticism in American high schools and colleges was the Cold War decades between 1950 and the mid-seventies, doubtless because it offered a relatively straightforward and politically uncontroversial approach to the teaching of literature’’1.The ones that are behind this revolution of the critical views are mainly; I.A Richard and T.S Eliot and F.R Leavis, who were in their turn influenced by Mathew Arnold’s critics but every one of the above, had a different view of the way literature should be studied or taught. There is also their revolution against the social conditions that
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