The document discusses different types of literary criticism: 1) Mimetic criticism focuses on how accurately a work depicts reality and judges its quality based on verisimilitude. 2) Pragmatic criticism views a work as constructed to achieve effects on the audience and judges its value by its success in doing so. 3) Practical criticism concerns itself with analyzing particular works and writers, often implicitly or when occasion demands, as seen in influential English and American works like Dryden's essays and Arnold's criticism.

1. Name : Kubavat Kishan
Semester: 1
Paper no: 3
PG Enrollment no : 14101021
Paper Name : The Literary theory &
criticism
Topic : Types of Criticism
Submitted to : Department of English
M.K Bhavnagar University

2. Mimetic
criticism
Types of
critical
theory
Expressive
criticism
Objective
criticism
Pragmatic
criticism

3. 1) Mimetic criticism
 Mimesis is the Greek word of imitation.
 Mimetic Criticism emphasizes a work’s
relationship to the world it depicts, and judge its
quality in terms of its verisimilitude, the fidelity
of its imitation, or the reflection of the world and
life.
 This mode of criticism, which first appeared in
Plato and in Aristotle , remains characteristic of
modern theories of literary realism.

4.  Rene Girard is the modern thinker who has
stretched the mimetic theory of literary
criticism across time and disciplines.
 In his 1961 book “Deceit, Desire and the
Novel” , he argued persuasively that great
novelists alone in the western world have
understood the mimetic foundation of human
interaction.

5. 2) Pragmatic criticism
 Pragmatic criticism views the as something which is
constructed in order to achieve certain effects on the
audience and it tends to judge the value of work
according to its success in achieve that him.
 This approach which largely dominated literary
discussion from the versified Art of poetry by the
Roman Horace through the eighteenth century, has
been revived in rhetorical criticism.

6. Which emphasizes the artistic strategies by
which an author engages and influences the
responses of readers to the matters represented
in a literary work.
The pragmatic approach has also been
adopted by some structuralists who analyze
a literary text as a systematic play of codes that
produce the interpretative responses of a
reader.

7. Literary criticism
Theoretical
criticism
Practical criticism

8. 3) Practical criticism or applied criticism
 The criticism Concerns itself with
particular works and writers; in an applied
critique , the theoretical principles
controlling the analysis, interpretation, and
evaluation are often left often left implicit,
or brought in only as the occasion demands.

9. • The more influential works of applied criticism
in England and America are the literary essays
of Dryden in the Restoration,
Coleridge’s chapters on the poetry of
Wordsworth in Biographia Literaria (1857),
Matthew Arnold’s Essays in criticism.
In practical criticism , a frequent distinction
is made between impressionistic and judicial
criticism.