Possession: reception and interpretation: critical approaches.an overview of different types of criticism and try to show how Byatt uses them in her novel.

Possession: reception and interpretation: critical approaches Some intellectual tendencies deeply mark the criticism in the XXth century. Criticism becomes a theoretical method elaborated from the humanistic sciences. Contemporary literary critics propose new reading of the work from a model of analysis previously defined. It tries to examine what types of questions we should pose about literary works. In this seminar, we are going to give an overview of different types of criticism and try to …

…conclusion, we can say that this novel is a "mise en abîme" of the process of reading, interpreting and criticising. In fact, as reader we are supposed to interpret this novel which presents us two scholars that are trying to interpret the literary works of two Victorian poets. Moreover, these poets criticise their own works in their correspondence. We see that criticism is one of the central themes of the book.