Of course, being a literary critic is a very hard mission within the contemporary model of societal views. The literary theory has been changing immensely throughout centuries and thus now it presents a model that needs the new contribution of theories in order to adequately assess the literature under consideration. As such, drawing on Eageltown’s (and Barry’s) summaries of recent literary theory, (Barry, p. 302) it has to be stated the new current – the new rhetoric – can find useful concepts within the works of New Critics and feminist theory.
In order to be completely unbiased, it is important to choose different theories and approaches in order to study the nature of literature and exercise the literary theory correctly. Therefore, various critical theories should be used. One of which is New Critics’ works. Provided that New Critics always out the literary work through a facet of moral judgment, it is important to understand this theory’s fruitful conclusions that a commonly accepted now literary theory is not likely to provide. Implying a moral and religious dimension, New Critics would percept a poem by T. S. Eliot or Gerard Manley Hopkins first of all for its amount of honest messages and the process of looking for the truth and belief in the world and society.
The newer critical approaches have to be saved in order to conserve every precious of the literature’s understanding. (Eagleton, p. 237) For that Feminist theory needs to be regarded closer by literary theory critics in order to apply more adequate and unbiased content to the literature analysis. Although feminist theory includes Marxism, cultural materialism, and other useful theories, yet the main focus is feminist principles that are used to analyze literary content in order to bring in a new completely diversified meaning of feminist insights and gender definitions.
References
Barry, P. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2009. Print.
Eagelton, T. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press. 2008. Print.