Literature is meant to express meaning but understanding the significance of a novel, play or poem can take some digging. If you have the exact tools you can gain a deep indulgent of the texts you read and approach literature’s most daunting topics with confidence. This book presents a host of milieu information and useful resources to help you make use of a reader’s most essential tools literary criticism and literary theory. Literary theory and criticism is a way of interpreting a literary work of art. When scholars and readers engage in literary criticism and theories which is the practice of evaluating literature they frequently use literary theories to inform their thoughts, opinions and ideas about a text.Although the terms literary criticism and literary theory are related they are not similar. Great scholars like to think of literary theories as eyeglasses through which they can scrutinize and evaluate works of art. Then what they see all the way through each lens (each theory) becomes the focus of their literary criticism. Literary criticism is a investigate method or a kind of scholarly discussion that engages with literary theory.