The Twentieth Century I: The Early Decades PART II--Blamires
M. Phil English, Bharathiar University--Blamiers—
Approaches--Unit III
Summary by Dr. S. Sreekumar
Syllabus for Unit III
The Romantic Age (Blamires, pp 217-380)
The Victorian Age
The Twentieth Century I: The Early Decades
The Twentieth Century II: Post-war Developments
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: POST-WAR DEVELOPMENTS
English literary criticism was strongly influenced by European thoughts
and ideas during the post-war period. This gave a cosmopolitan character to
studies in literary criticism.
Since the Second World War we see an escalation in the way fashions
succeed each other in the field of literary criticism. Moreover in the early
years of the century there was always a link between creative writing and
critical output. But this relationship totally disappeared at the post-war
period.
Before looking at the various theories that flourished during this period,
let us look at the contributions of two major critics whom it is difficult to
classify as belonging to particular schools.
