Possession: reception and interpretation: critical approaches
Some intellectual tendencies deeply mark the criticism in the XXth century. Criticism becomes a theoretical method elaborated from the humanistic sciences. Contemporary literary critics propose new reading of the work from a model of analysis previously defined. It tries to examine what types of questions we should pose about literary works. In this seminar, we are going to give an overview of different types of criticism and try to show how Byatt uses them in her novel.
Historical / biographical criticism
Until well into the…
