Sociological Approach

SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH

INTRODUCTION.

1)      Who traces sociological criticism to Vico’s eighteenth century study of Homer’s epics?

Edmund Wilson.

2)      Who continues sociological approach in the nineteenth century?

Herder.

3)      Who brings the sociological approach to the fullest statement?

French man Taine.

4)      What was the pronouncement of French man Taine?

Literature is the consequence of the moment, the race and the milieu.

5)      What was the fourth factor introduced by Marx and Engels?

The methods of production.

6)      Who are all concerned with the relationship between literature and society?

Howells, Jack London, Hamlin Garland and Frank Norris.

7)      Who composes “The Spirit of American Literature” in 1908?

John Macy.

8)      Whose work came from the personal commitment to Jeffersonian?

Parrengler’s Main current in American thought, 1929-1930.

9)      Who are all the emplicity of the effects of society upon artists?

Randolph Bourne and T.R.Whipple.

10)  Write some works which served as the organs for Marxist criticism?

“New Masses”, “Under Michael Gold’s editorship and the left review”, “under edge rice-word”.

11)  Who has profound knowledge of Marxism?

Christopher Caudwell.

12)  Write a work by James Farrell?

“A note on literary criticism-1936.”

13)  Name the work in which Edmund Wilson attacks Marxism and literature?

“The Triple thinkers”-1938.

14)  Who are the writers who form in their own ways the cultural atmosphere to see the comic drama in a new light?

Issac Newton, Sir Thomas Brown and John Bunyan.

15)  What lust did the sociological critics do?

The sociological critics place the work of art in the social atmosphere and differs that relationship.

16)  What does Harry state about the relationship between literature and society?

He says that they are reciprocals. Literature is not only the effect of social causes, but it is also the cause of social effects.

17)  Who has been writing a series of books devoted to the social atmosphere in which American writers worked?

Van Wyck Brutes.

18)  Who is the author of “American renaissance” in 1941?

F.O. Mattiessen.

      19) Who composes the work “The Mind in Chains” in 1937?

C. Day Lewis.

      20) In which year “The Novel and the People” published?

In 1937.

Submitted by,

DEMONA,

1^st M.A English Literature.