Journal Entry for Humanism Project

Literary Theory: An intro, by Terry Eagleton, is a expedient and a bear witnessable book. I really enjoyed reading the eldest two essays. In Introduction: What is lit  essay Eagleton explains the clog of defining literary works and hence of defining literary hypothesis. He tries to define literature correspond to other critics points of view. For Roman Jakobson, literature is a way of piece which represents an organized violence pull on ordinary speech. Eagleton continues with the narration of Formalism as the occupation of linguistics and then the upshot of Stalinism that rejected the quasi-mystical symboliser dogmas which had influenced criticism before them. George Orwell clarifies the interpretation of literature as how soul read not to the temper of work. This means just to read because you like the writers way of paternity without any attention to the content. fast one M. Ellis has a weird equivalence between literature and weed. Eagleton explains that linking literature to our own concerns may obtain the values of the work everyplace centuries. Eagleton sums up that literature is merely a social formula so literary opening is an artificial discipline. literary productions too is an unstable category which varies greatly according to social, political and heathen circumstances.\nIn The Rise of English , Eagleton starts with the history of literature. The imagination and envisage writing didnt take a place in the startle of literature history. Literature was the reflection of religious and social morals. Literature was as ˜propaganda which was used to spread out social values. It in like manner body forth the values of the upper classes. by and by eighteenth century, the aesthetic theory of literature starts to appear with the emerge of Romanticism. The rise of the symbol also came in this period. Eagleton also indicates that the suppuration of English studies in ordinal century was caused by the tribulation of religion. According to Theor...