Publisher's Synopsis
The book is an attempt to see through the definitions, judgements and characteristic features of the literary theories and critical schools of literature, offering special emphasis on the concepts of beauty, aesthetics, modernism, postmodernism, structuralism, meta-narrative, semiotics, deconstruction and on the philosophical psyche of criticism itself that have swept the critical consciousness of the 20th century. This work is patterned to be elaborate and explicit enough so as to reach the target readers- students, research scholars, teachers, and the readers in general, not frequenters to this discipline. The book provides a comprehensive explanation for all the topics covered, and also gives relevant examples to help the readers understand the concepts in a better way.
