The Discipline of Criticism: Principles Uniting Major Schools

FAIN: FT-12458-75

George C. Herndl
Belmont Abbey College (Belmont, NC 28012-1802)

To examine and classify some chief schools of contemporary literary criticism in order to clarify their essential compatibilities and disagreements. We lack and need a practical discipline of criticism, a set of principles for dealing with literature and for the coherent ordering of thought and knowledge about it. To write an essay with a holistic approach, based on a soundly reasoned definition of literature.