ORIGIN OF LITERARY CRITICISM ?
The origin of literary criticism may be traced back to
ancient Greek culture and art . Literary criticism is the vast and veried field
which covers a number of different activities . In its limited dende it refers to the analysis and interpretation of
test . In its wider application it is conserm with the nature and function of
literature including scholarly interpretation , Evaluation Judgement
priscriptive criticism , Literary History and literary theory .
The History of literary criticism has a large time span of
more than two thousand years and it includes pioneering critics and their ideas
as well as critical movements . The Origin of literary criticism may be traced
back to ancient Greek culture and art . The Greek poetry of Homer and Hesiod
provided the neccesory background and impetus to the growth of classical
criticism . The Poetry of this ancient period was regarded to be both composer
Greek philosopher Plato expressed his views about poetry and that was the
earliest instance of literary criticism . His Decycle Aristotle in his poetics
offered for the first time a well organized description of literary forms ,
Their nature and function . It set standard for criticism was often religious
in its focus
In Succeding periods literary criticism either renewed the
classical norms and notions like objectivity unity , Coherence order , grandure
, nobility and Diction like neoclasism did . Romanticism challenged them in its
insistence on subjectivity freedom from norms . Imagination and expression of
emotions . In the Mordan period especially during 19th century and
20th century criticism developed in many different directions .
Critic interested in the tradition , Historical , moral and biographical
approaches revised the theoretical frame works of historical moral approaches
and examined literary frame work . But new critic criticism moved away from
these traditional frame work and became increasingly objective practical and
texual which is the modern practidancy of literary criticism .