This document discusses various types of literary criticism. It defines criticism as the act of judging and discusses some influential historical critics like Aristotle and Horace. It then defines literary criticism as analyzing and evaluating works of literature. The document outlines different types of practical criticism like impressionistic, judicial, and objective criticism. Impressionistic criticism expresses the critic's personal responses to a work, while expressive criticism emphasizes revealing the author's emotions and life through their work. Objective criticism approaches literature as standing alone without connections to the author or audience.

1. Various Types of criticism
Name : Ravi Bhaliya A
Semester : 01
Roll No : 26
Paper No : 03 (Literary Theory and Criticism)
Enrolment No:14101004
Year : 2014-16
Email ID : ravibhaliya5@gmil.com
Date : 07-10-14
Submitted To: Department Of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

2. Introduction
What Is Criticism ?
Literary Criticism
Impressionistic Criticism
Expressive Criticism
Objective Criticism

3. Introduction
The Greek Word Kritikos, which means ‘ Able to
Discern and Judge. Act Of Judging is called
Criticism. The earliest , and enduringly important,
treatise of theoretical criticism was Aristotle’s
Poetics . Among The most influential theoretical in
the following centuries were Longinus in Greece;
Horace in Rome ; Boileau and Sainte –Beuve in
France .

4. What is Criticism ?
Literary Criticism is concerned
with defining , classifying,
analyzing ,interpreting, and
evaluating work of literature.

5. Literary Criticism
Theoretical Practical

6. Practical
Criticism
Impressioni
-stic
Criticism
Judicial
Criticism

7. Impressionistic Criticism
 Impressionistic Criticism means personal
Impression. Impressionistic Criticism attempts
to represent in word the felt qualities of a
particular passage or work, and to express the
responses that the work directly evoke from the
critic.

8. As William Hazlitt put it in his essay “On Genius and
Common Sense” (1824):
“ You decide from feeling not for reason: that is for
impression of number of thing on the mind….
Though you may not be able to analyze or account
for it in the several particulars ”
It is what happens a critic is reading a
piece of work and critiques it on he or
she is feeling instead using the
principles.

9. Types of Critical Theory and Practical
Mimetic Pragmatic
Expressive Objective

10. Expressive Criticism
A definition of term Expressive
Criticism is Presented. The term
emphasizes the author as creator of the
work, stress the artist’s emotions and
beliefs, and resume that the work
contains inadvertently or not the
revelation of the author’s life .
 The three key concepts associated
with this movements are …Imagination,
Genius, Emotion

11. Objective Criticism
 Objective Criticism approach the
work of literature as something which
stand free from what is often called an
“extrinsic” relationship to the poet, or
the audience, or to the environing
world.