The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: Introduction |Matthew Arnold| Literary Criticism|
|Culture and Anarchy|
The Function of Criticism at The Present Time by Matthew Arnold is a book published in 1865. The book was aimed at redefining the task and function of critic and criticism in victorian society.
Victorian society is a society that was highly criticized for its vanities. Most of the writers exposed the vanity and fake morality of Victorian society. Charles Dickens's novel exposes the capitalist side of victorian society, Lord Tennyson wrote "The lady of Shallot" criticized the literary infertility of victorian society.
Matthew Arnold who can be considered one of the earliest cultural critic makes victorian culture and society the main theme of his writings. #Culture and Anarchy is the main contribution of Arnold to the study of victorian society or European society in General.
Matthew Arnold wants wholistic reforms in culture, both at the social and literary levels.
What were the grounds on which he criticized victorian society and What were his suggestions? To know watch this lecture on The Function of Criticism at the Present Time by Matthew Arnold at #UrAkedmi.
In this part, we will deal with the Contents of this lecture, Definition of Critic and Criticism, Three functions of Citic, and Matthew Arnold's concept of Disinterestedness.
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00:00 Contents
00:55 Definition of Critic and Criticism
02:18 Three Functions of Critic
05:04 Disinterestedness of a Critic
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