Abstract
Within the British tradition of literary criticism, and then more specifically the Formalist tradition of the post-war years, the idea of value judgement implied by the appellation Christian (or by the use of the concept of world view within the confines of an essay in literary criticism) would seem to be positively repugnant. The use of any criterion in literary criticism that deals with philosophical concepts has to be very carefully considered.
Highlights
W ithin the British tradition of literary criticism, and the Formalist tradition of the post-war years, the idea of value judgment implied by the appellation Christian would seem to be positively repugnant
These extra considerations I take to be questions of world view — and the whole matter of ideological considerations in literary criticism has come to be of absorbing interest, within the framework of Marxist criticism
Once the artistic quality and value of the work in question have been demonstrated in critical terms the final evaluative function of the critic comes into play, and this final evaluative faculty of' the critic cannot fiinction in a vacuum — it is delcrmincd to the larp[est extent by the world view of the critic
Summary
W ithin the British tradition of literary criticism, and the Formalist tradition of the post-war years, the idea of value judgment implied by the appellation Christian (or by the use of the concept of world view within the confines of an essay in literary criticism) would seem to be positively repugnant. Once the artistic quality and value of the work in question have been demonstrated in critical terms the final evaluative function of the critic comes into play, and this final evaluative faculty of' the critic cannot fiinction in a vacuum — it is delcrmincd to the larp[est extent by the world view of the critic.
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