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Dynamics of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism offers a comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of contemporary literary criticism. The book discusses the significance and interplay of different schools of critical thought like Formalism, Marxism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Feminism and Orientalism, tracing the growth and development of the modern literary temper. This is accentuated by the evaluative study of select essays by seminal twentieth-century critics like T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards, F.R. Leavis and Herbert Read, whose works and ideas have been instrumental in shaping the current literary outlook. Presently, the domain of literature is being explored by a variety of associated disciplines, such as Sociology, Anthropology, Politics, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, Linguistics and Science. In this atmosphere of crowded discourse, this book provides a streamlined overview of twentieth-century criticism, emerging as an indispensable resource for students and enthusiasts of literature.