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    Mini Modules - Day 4 - Literary Criticism

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    Plato offered the first sustained critique of poetry in works like Ion and The Republic. He found poetry to be false, emotionally exciting, and morally corrupting. Plato also believed that poetry was inconducive to his ideal philosophical state. Aristotle later formulated more rational and scientific views on art and literature in works like Poetics and Rhetoric.

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    Plato offered the first sustained critique of poetry in works like Ion and The Republic. He found poetry to be false, emotionally exciting, and morally corrupting. Plato also believed that poetry was inconducive to his ideal philosophical state. Aristotle later formulated more rational and scientific views on art and literature in works like Poetics and Rhetoric.

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    Plato offered the first sustained critique of poetry in works like Ion and The Republic. He found poetry to be false, emotionally exciting, and morally corrupting. Plato also believed that poetry was inconducive to his ideal philosophical state. Aristotle later formulated more rational and scientific views on art and literature in works like Poetics and Rhetoric.

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    Literary Criticism

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    Neerja Raheja
    Select the tentative dates of Plato:

    1. 429- 347 BC
    2. 483-376 BC
    Plato offered the first sustained critique of poetry

    1. True
    2. False
    What were the major concerns of Plato about poetry:
    1. He found poetry to be false and imitative
    2. He found poetry to be emotionally exciting and
    morally corrupting
    3. He found poetry to be inconducive to his ideal
    state
    4. All of the above
    He put his views across in ION and The Republic

    - In ION : Socrates is shown cross examining a


    rhapsode (singer) on the nature of art
    - Socrates tells the rhapsode that the poet
    composes in a fit of divine inspiration by the
    Muses, in a state of possession and not through
    his own talent and ability
    - In other words he calls poets and their poetry
    inspired and irrational
    The rhapsode’s art is equally irrational in the sense
    that it lacks art and knowledge

    - Socrates challenges the rhapsode’s art by


    referring to his understanding of Homer’s poetry
    In the REPUBLIC: Plato deals more intensely and
    elaborately with poetry

    - He treats it philosophically and to some extent


    ideologically as his aim is to replace poetry with
    philosophy
    In which book of the Republic he proposes the
    theory of mimesis for the first time?

    1. Book 1
    2. Book 2
    3. Book 3
    4. None of the above
    - He proposes the theory of mimesis (imitation) for
    the first time in BOOK III of The Republic
    - In this book Plato divides literature into two kinds
    of narration :

    Diegesis (narrative)

    Mimesis (imitative)
    - He does not criticise poetry in Book 3 and
    expects deep involvement of the actor while
    reciting poetry
    - But in BOOK X of the Republic the tone and the
    theme changes completely and he declares
    poetry to be a false activity
    - In order to support his critique of poetry he
    examines it in the light of HIS THEORY OF FORMS
    - He shows that poetry falls short of the standard
    of reality
    - For plato the physical world is not independent
    and self sustained
    - It depends upon another world of ideas
    Aristotle (384-322 BC) is another great pioneer of
    Western philosophy and literary theory

    - He logically formulated his views about art in


    general and poetry in particular and provided a
    RATIONAL BASE to literature and criticism
    - POETICS and RHETORIC show his rational
    thinking and scientific method of analysis
    1. Plato is idealistic in his thinking whereas Aristotle is
    pragmatic
    2. Plato examines everything against his concept of
    FORM which is abstract
    3. Aristotle evaluates everything in a concrete and
    scientific way
    4. Plato thinks deductively that is he draws particular
    conclusions from general objects whereas Aristotle
    thinks inductively that is he draws general conclusions
    from particular objects
    Plato’s theory in a nutshell:

    - Art is dangerous due to several reasons


    - Art is essentially DECEPTIVE
    - Art is mainly concerned with sensual pleasure
    - Art is psychologically de stabilizing for the
    individual
    - Art leads to immortality
    - Art is politically dangerous, threat to common
    good
    The picaresque novel with a
    female
    picaroom is :
    (A) Tom Jones
    (B) Clarissa
    (C) Moll Flanders
    (D) Amelia

    Moll Flanders
    The woman character who is an
    artist by
    profession in Virgnia Woolf‘s To
    The
    Lighthouse is :
    (A) Lily Briscoe
    (B) Mrs. Ramsay
    (C) Mrs. Dalloway
    (D) Miriam

    Lily Briscoe
    Pinter‘s Care Taker can be called a:

    (A) comedy of manners


    (B) comedy of menace
    (C) comedy of errors
    (D) comedy of humours

    Comedy of
    menace
    Toni Morrison used male narrator for
    the first time in :

    (A) Song of Solomon


    (B) Tar Baby
    (C) Jazz
    (D) The Bluest Eye

    Song of
    Solomon
    Which of the following sets would you
    call the poets of the Movement ?
    (A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John
    Wain
    (B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen
    Spender
    (C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra
    Pound
    (D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson,
    Anthony
    Thwaite

    a
    The Muse of History is a
    classic
    postcolonial essay by :
    (A) Ngugi wa Thiongo
    (B) Chinua Achebe
    (C) Wilson Harris
    (D) Derek Walcott
    d
    In a celebrated essay called 'The
    Muse of History', Derek Walcott
    writes that “[A]s we grow older as a
    race, we grow aware that history is
    written, that it is a kind of literature
    without morality, that in its actuaries
    the ego of the race is indissoluble
    and that everything depends on
    whether we write this fiction
    Verses on the Death of Dr
    Swift was
    written by...
    (A) Jonathan Swift
    (B) Alexander Pope
    (C) Samuel Johnson
    (D) James Boswell

    a
    What is common to the following
    poems? Wordsworth‟s „The
    Recluse‟ Shelley‟s „The Triumph of
    Life‟ Byron‟s „Don Juan‟
    Keats‟ „Hyperion‟

    (A) They are all elegies


    (B) They are all unfinished poems
    (C) They are all divided into cantos
    (D) They are women-centred poems

    b
    ̳The mind-forged manacles‘
    is phrase
    from :
    (A) ”London”
    (B) ”Eternity”
    (C) “A Poison Tree”
    (D) “I Asked a Thief”

    a
    ―Provincializing
    Europeǁ is a concept
    propounded by
    (A) Edward Said
    (B) Paul Gilroy
    (C) Abdul R. Gurnah
    (D) Dipesh Chakravarty

    d
    ―Fail I alone in words and
    deeds ?/Why,
    all men strive and who
    succeeds ?ǁ These
    lines are from
    (A) “Rabbi Ben Ezra”
    (B) “Fra Lippo Lippi”
    (C) “Caliban upon Setebos”
    (D) “The Last Ride Together”

    d
    Who among the following is
    called ―A
    New England Poetǁ :
    (A) Robert Frost
    (B) Edwin Arlington Robinson
    (C) William Carlos Williams
    (D) Allen Ginsberg

    a
    Which of the following is not
    a play by
    Tennessee Williams :
    (A) Night of the Iguana
    (B) A Streetcar named Desire
    (C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    (D) The Zoo Story

    d
    Margaret Atwood‘s Survival is :
    (A) a critical assessment of
    Canadian writing
    (B) a thematic guide to
    Canadian literature
    (C) a critique of Canadian
    polity

    b
    Thank You

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