Literature and Truth and/or Judgement

Question 1

What does Sir Philip Sidney claim (1595)?

Answer 1

“the poet nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth”, because he “creates another nature” not directly represents reality

Question 2

What does Matthew Arnold suggest is the “real estimate” of “poetical quality”?

Answer 2

The “real estimate” of “poetical quality” is the “strength and joy to be drawn from it”, which results in its “matter and substance…form and style”
literature is the “instinct of self-preservation in humanity”

Question 3

What does Matthew Arnold suggest are NOT good estimates of “poetical quality”?

Answer 3

The “personal estimate” and the “historic estimate!

Question 4

What does Bendetto Croce identify as the aims of histoircal interpretation?

Answer 4

“historical interpretation labours…to reintegrate ourselves in the psychological conditions which have changed in the course of history…enables us to see art as the author saw it in its moment of production”

Question 5

What didJohn Crowe Ransom (New Critic) assert?

Answer 5

Criticsm must become “more scientific”; therefore ‘its proper seat is in the universities’ studying ‘the techniques of art’

Question 6

What did the RUssian Formalist Boris Eichenbaum insist?

Answer 6

‘a science of literature is possible’, but the ‘object of a science of literature is not literature, but literariness’