Name : Kubavat Kishan Semester: 1Paper no: 3PG Enrollment no : 14101021Paper Name : The Literary theory & criticismTopic : Types of Criticism Submitted to : Department of English M.K Bhavnagar University

Types of critical theory

Mimetic criticism

Expressive criticism

Objective criticism

Pragmatic criticism

1) Mimetic criticism

Mimesis is the Greek word of imitation.

Mimetic Criticism emphasizes a work’s relationship to the world it depicts, and judge its quality in terms of its verisimilitude, the fidelity of its imitation, or the reflection of the world and life.

This mode of criticism, which first appeared in Plato and in Aristotle , remains characteristic of modern theories of literary realism.

Rene Girard is the modern thinker who has stretched the mimetic theory of literary criticism across time and disciplines.

In his 1961 book “Deceit, Desire and the Novel” , he argued persuasively that great novelists alone in the western world have understood the mimetic foundation of human interaction.

2) Pragmatic criticism

Pragmatic criticism views the as something which is constructed in order to achieve certain effects on the audience and it tends to judge the value of work according to its success in achieve that him.

This approach which largely dominated literary discussion from the versified Art of poetry by the Roman Horace through the eighteenth century, has been revived in rhetorical criticism.

Which emphasizes the artistic strategies by which an author engages and influences the responses of readers to the matters represented in a literary work.

The pragmatic approach has also been adopted by some structuralists who analyze a literary text as a systematic play of codes that produce the interpretative responses of a reader.

Literary criticism

Theoretical criticism

Practical criticism

3) Practical criticism or applied criticism

The criticism Concerns itself with particular works and writers; in an applied critique , the theoretical principles controlling the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation are often left often left implicit, or brought in only as the occasion demands.

• The more influential works of applied criticism in England and America are the literary essays of Dryden in the Restoration,Coleridge’s chapters on the poetry of Wordsworth in Biographia Literaria (1857),Matthew Arnold’s Essays in criticism.

In practical criticism , a frequent distinction is made between impressionistic and judicial criticism.

Thank You