TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 29: Function of critics

In every age there have been critics and there have been criticism but it is only after the publication of Arnold’s remarkable essay that numerous theories about the function of criticism has been constructed and more so in our own age. After Arnold the modern critic unlike their predecessors have theorized more about the role and the function of the critic than about the role of an artist. | FUNCTION OF CRITICS In every age there have been critics and there have been criticism but it is only after the publication of Arnold’s remarkable essay that numerous theories about the function of criticism has been constructed and more so in our own age. After Arnold the modern critic unlike their predecessors have theorized more about the role and the function of the critic than about the role of an artist Our age can be called the age of criticism and one of the dominant figures of our age is an example of this fact. He has theorized more about criticism than he has done actual criticism., and he has theorized more about the critic than about the artist. The function of criticism is the commentation and exposition of the works of art by means of written word. As definition it sounds remarkable but if we try to analyze it nothing substantial will come out of it. We are told nothing about the principles on which the commentation and exposition of the work of art has to be

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