LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:5 May 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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Eclecticism at the End of the Tunnel

Dr. K. Venkatramana Rao, Ph.D.

Chaos of Literary Theories

I. A. Richards opens his book Principles of Literary Criticism with the chapter “A Chaos of Critical Theories”. The fecundity of literary theories and the prolific outputs that followed them were bafflingly multifarious and perplexingly variegated. I. A. Richards meant that it is critical theory that imparts significance to the work of art taken for scrutiny. As a psychologist he was able to see many different layers of experience tagged into the work of art.

Eliot and Literary Criticism

Eliot, who is famous and notorious for his shockingly original statements, meaningfully rich definitions, intellectually alluring ironies and expressive phrases, contributed much to critical thought. Impersonality of art disassociation of sensibility, amalgamation of sensibilities, and the impersonality of art are some of his original contributions to literary criticism. Objective correlative, literary pastiche, feeling and emotion as universal and literary respectively, are part of present literary heritage.

Eliot’s regret is that the right questions about poetry have not been asked. He sets it right by asking questions about the nature of poetry and its structural details. These thoughts took poetry out of the shackles of romantic pre-disposition and brought poetry to a wider domain of psycho-sociological and literary space. The growth of studies in human, social and mental sciences, the findings of anthropology and myth were all brought into literary interpretation and what was merely a linguistic artefact became a complex, excellent amalgam of the experience of the sensitive individual whose perceptions are governed by the culture and history of the people he lived with.

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Dr. K. Venkatramana Rao, Ph.D.
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College of Arts and Science
Mylapore
Chennai 60004
Tamilnadu
India
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