MEG - 05
Literary Criticism & Theory
ASSIGNMENT 2024 - 2025
Based on Blocks (1 – 8)
 
Answer all questions.
 
1. Explain and discuss Aristotle's view of literature as imitation. 
2. Do you think that Wordsworth establishes a new poetic theory? What are the main features of his theory?
3. Write short notes on the following: 
a) Rasa
(b) Catharsis
(c) Postmodernism
(d) “Woman as other”
4. Show how literary criticism and theory have developed a materialistic dimension based on Marxism. 
5. Draw out the ideologies set forth by Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf as pioneer feminists.