II. Modern literary theory and criticism
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(Since 19th Century; see above) | a. early 20th-c
approach:
--textual scholarship --biographical or historic approach --impressionistic approach (appreciation of beauty) --naturalist approach --New Humanism ( moral-philosophic approach)ˇXtraced back to Plato |
New criticism,
Russian formalism and Leavisites
NC: EliotˇXthe poem as the impersonal formulations of common feelings and emotions; objective correlatives --affective fallacy, intentional fallacy,
organic unity RF: Art as device; defamiliarization |
From parts to an organic whole |