Basics Of Literary Criticism

A good book on Literary Criticism should be simple straight-forward easy to lead a student into complicated ideas and still keep him/her fresh and thinking. True and genuine criticism intends to teach students how to read and respond to the great works of literature. Basics of Literary Criticism by Dr Vilas Salunke aims at helping a fresh graduate student at the beginning of his educational career enabling him/her at how to understand literary criticism. First the book tries to answer the questions: What is literature? What are principles of criticism? What are the basic critical approaches to literature? After placing before the student the contributions of some great critics in English it elucidates some literary and critical concepts needed to understand literature. To help the student to be independent in judgement of English Literature the book finally introduces examples of unseen poems in “Practical Criticism.” In this sense the book would be of immense help to all the Graduate Post graduate and NET/SET students of English.