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Considering the great popularity of the first seven editions of the book, twentieth century literary criticism, and keeping in mind the valuable suggestions received from several quarters, the present eighth edition has been revised and enlarged by adding four new chapters. It now contains 64 chapters in all, organized into three parts. Part I of the book lays emphasis on various schools of criticism that are prevalent in India and the West. Each Chapter contains an analysis of the theory in Question and shows the trend and development as well as the methodology of literary criticism in the twentieth century. Part II contains discussions on a large number of critical Essays and covers critics such as Eliot, Richards, leavis, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault and the postcolonial critics. The seminal critical Essays included in this section have influenced the critical trends in the twentieth century and changed the General perception of criticism. These chapters, apart from giving a comprehensive idea of the critical concepts, also provide an analytical study of the critical works.