Questions:  Chapter 1, Bressler: “Literary Criticism.

1. What is literary criticism?

2. What is “dialogic heteroglossia” and how is it related to literary criticism?

3. Explain the difference between a hermeneutics of recovery and a hermeneutics of suspicion.

4. Bressler distinguishes between an untutored or untrained literary criticism and formally trained literary critics. How do you see this difference?  How would you evaluate your own place on a spectrum with “untrained” at one end and “professional literary critic” on the other?

5. Discuss the relationship of theory to practice in the context of the information on page 7 of Bressler.