This study aid in Literary Criticism is mainly intended for the students of Postgraduate English programme in Indian Universities. There have been persistent complaints aired by English literature learning and teaching fraternity, that both the learning and teaching of Criticism happens to be a difficult proposition in the absence of concise and comprehensive study material. A creative approach in the study of Criticism necessarily entails a thorough knowledge of the prescribed essays and the writer and his/her philosophy, as well as the epoch.A detailed analysis of the text is also integral to it.
This study aid which covers a wide range of critics from Plato to Stanley Fish plus Indian Aesthetic theories of Rasa and Dhvani is conceived with that purpose in mind.Definition of Literary Criticism with an overview of its history is also provided in the introduction.
Definitely this Companion will be useful to students, especially in the pandemic anxities when they face difficulty to have reference externally.