01-05-2012, 02:52 PM
Erthona said:
"I believe it is an important distinction, one that was blurred in the last century do to such school's of literary criticism as Marxism, Darwinism, Feminism, and other's of the same type. I believe that confusion in terms of poetical criticism is still operative today. These schools had a ready made ideology they brought to the table against which to measure the poem, and discover if it matched those expectations. So they determined if the poem was good or bad in relation to the ideology specific ethics they brought to the table."
It seems as if you've brought your own ideological ethics to the table.
Criticizing art's effect on society is as valid as any of the other aesthetics.
"I believe it is an important distinction, one that was blurred in the last century do to such school's of literary criticism as Marxism, Darwinism, Feminism, and other's of the same type. I believe that confusion in terms of poetical criticism is still operative today. These schools had a ready made ideology they brought to the table against which to measure the poem, and discover if it matched those expectations. So they determined if the poem was good or bad in relation to the ideology specific ethics they brought to the table."
It seems as if you've brought your own ideological ethics to the table.
Criticizing art's effect on society is as valid as any of the other aesthetics.
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