This file provides an understanding of Literary Criticism and Pragmatic Criticism as well as Pragmatism which is totally a different branch of study.

1. PRAGMATIC
CRITICISM
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Theoretical Criticism
Smt. S B Gardi Department of English,
MKBU.
MA- Semester 1

2. Literary Criticism
Works of
Literature
Defining
Classifying
AnalyzingInterpreting
Evaluating
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CRITICISM
Theoretical
Criticism
Mimetic
Criticism
Pragmatic
Criticism
Practical /
Applied
Criticism
Expressive
Criticism
Objective
Criticism

4. PRAGMATIC CRITICISM
• It views the work as something which is
constructed in order to achieve certain
effects on the audience.
• It is concerned with the ethical impact that
any literary text has upon an audience /
readers.
• Critics judge the value of work according to
its success in achieving its aim.
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5. History
• Pragmatic criticism
dominated literary
discussion from the versified
“Art of Poetry” by the
Roman Horace.
• Through the eighteenth
century , it has been revived
in rhetorical criticism.
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6. Art
• Pragmatic
criticism
considers art to
be created to
have a certain
purpose and
effect on the
audience.
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Assessing
Fulfilling
Shaping

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Effects such as aesthetic
pleasure, instruction, or
kinds of emotion is
constructed.

8. Shaping the needs wants
and desires of the
audience should be the
prime task of an artist.
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9. Pragmatism
• Pragmatism is a philosophical
tradition centered on the linking of
practice and theory.
• It describes the process where theory
is extracted from practice, and applied
back to practice to form what is called
intelligent practice.
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Don’t get confused with Pragmatism

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11. Works Cited
• M. H. Abrams- “A Glossary of
Literary Terms”.
• https://prezi.com/8pjilypjuvg7/pra
gmatic-criticism/
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