{"id":4169,"date":"2009-10-19T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2009-10-19T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:56:24","slug":"top-10-reasons-to-defend-literary-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/19\/top-10-reasons-to-defend-literary-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Reasons to Defend Literary Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4170\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/top-10.jpg\" alt=\"top 10\" width=\"449\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/top-10.jpg 449w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/top-10-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is possible to live without criticism and just experience reading. Just as it is possible to listen and enjoy music without knowing any musical theory. Just as it is possible to enjoy nature without knowing geology, chemistry, physics, biology, all subjects whose object of study is nature. But as Aristotle says all people desire to know.<\/p>\n<p>9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Criticism and its potential exist the moment a work of literature comes into being. Once a writer writes in conventions like iambic pentameter, couplets, rhyme, then the criticism which examines\u00a0these conventions become relevant &#8212;\u00a0in this case in the form of\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_criticism\" target=\"_blank\">New Criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ANALOGY: Once living things and the human body evolved, then the subject of biology\u00a0potentially\u00a0exists.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a08\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Criticism shows us how to teach literature. There are critical methods, which parallel scientific methods. There are finite methods of reading, as some readings are valid and some are not. Academic subjects are not democratic in the sense that everyone\u2019s opinions matter. (Science does not admit the notion of a flat earth.) Consequently criticism should\u00a0reveal the valid methods of reading which contribute to knowledge.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Criticism is defined as the theory of the use of words, the awareness of the use of words. It is a social science that studies the effect of words on society, the use of words and images by literary writers, as well as the mass media, advertising, politics. It shows us the different ways of reading art, the verbal arts, applied arts, sciences, applied sciences, people and society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are affected by words as much as we are by the weather. Orwell\u2019s major theme: If words are smashed and deprived of their meaning and readers become\u00a0illiterate, then society cannot change for the better and most likely will turn for the worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Criticism helps to relate literature to society. For better or worse, the critic is the pioneer and shaper of culture, a professional reader of writers.<\/p>\n<p>ANALOGY: for better or worse, the law is in the hands of a judge, who is not morally superior to anyone, but merely knows the law more than the average person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Criticism has the same relationship to literature as philosophy has to wisdom, aesthetics to art, and science to nature. It relays literature&#8217;s vision of the human condition.\u00a0 Criticism should and ought to progress, to explain these infinite visions of literature, which\u00a0continues to relate itself\u00a0to culture, now and in the future.\u00a0 We do not judge works of literature. They judge us: how well we encounter and engage literature\u2019s vision or revelation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Literature is mute, dumb, and cannot speak. It is \u201cnot heard but overheard,\u201d\u00a0 in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._S._Mill\" target=\"_blank\">Mill<\/a>\u2019s phrase. It shows rather than tells. It does not, like an essay, state its theme\/thesis explicitly.\u00a0 Our experience of anything, including literature, is often incomplete &#8212; we need criticism to fill in the gaps and prepare us for the kind of experience we may still potentially\u00a0have.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A\u00a0writer should be read, experienced, assessed according to the literary conventions (s)he inherits. We need the critic, the professional reader, to clarify those conventions for the average reader.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The act of criticism &#8212; reading, interpreting, translating, understanding &#8212; can be as CREATIVE as the act of producing\u00a0literature. There is a creative <em>literary<\/em> imagination and a creative <em>theoretical<\/em> imagination, a power to create and a power to understand. 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