TY - BOOK AU - Malhotra S.K. TI - Literary Criticism: Theory and practice SN - 978-93-81575-46-8 U1 - 809.034 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi. PB - Pearl Books N1 - 1. Introduction 2. Nature and function 3. Artistic literature 4. A study of critical thought 5. Fundamentals of literary criticism 6. Textual criticism 7.Literary theory and criticism 8. Historical criticism 9. The concept of structuralism 10. Narrative poetics 11. Ethical criticism 12.Deconstruction 13. Anatomy of criticism 14. The proust 15. A reader's Manifesto 16. Socio-literary study of modernism N2 - Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals. Literary criticism: Theory and practice is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Though the two activities are closely related, literary crities are not always, and have not always been theorists. ER -