Risultati di ricerca
Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics.Semiotics, tied closely to the structuralism pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, was extremely influential in the development of literary theory out of the formalist approaches of the early twentieth century.
Mimesis criticism is a method of interpreting texts in relation to their literary or cultural models. Mimesis, or imitation ( imitatio ), was a widely used rhetorical tool in antiquity up until the 18th century's romantic emphasis on originality. Mimesis criticism looks to identify intertextual relationships between two texts that go beyond ...
Textual criticism [a] is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may range in dates from the earliest writing in cuneiform, impressed on clay, for example, to multiple ...
Darwinian literary studies. Darwinian literary studies (also known as literary Darwinism) is a branch of literary criticism that studies literature in the context of evolution by means of natural selection, including gene-culture coevolution. It represents an emerging trend of neo-Darwinian thought in intellectual disciplines beyond those ...
L'oggetto della critica letteraria è la produzione di conoscenza sull' arte della letteratura che, per quanto storica, costituirà in sé un unicum di conoscenza e un apporto importante all'interpretazione dei significati che l'umanità si pone come argomento dell'arte e della simbologia dell'essere. Il critico letterario Francesco De Sanctis.
230039. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays ( Princeton University Press, 1957) is a book by Canadian literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye that attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, theory, principles, and techniques of literary criticism derived exclusively from literature. Frye consciously omits all specific and practical ...
Johnson's literature, especially his Lives of the Poets series, is marked by various opinions on what would make a poetic work excellent. He believed that the best poetry relied on contemporary language, and he disliked the use of decorative or purposefully archaic language. In particular, he was suspicious of John Milton 's language, whose ...
