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Pragmatic theories emphasize the reader's relationship to the work and treat literary works as constructed to achieve effects on the audience. These effects may include aesthetic pleasure, instruction, or emotions. Pragmatic critics judge a work based on its success in having an effect on and delivering its aim to the audience. Different critics like Sidney, Horace, and Samuel Johnson viewed the purpose of poetry or stories as either to instruct, please, improve morally, or elicit emotions from the audience. Pragmatic theories see the work as a crafted object designed to achieve specific goals for the reader.
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- 1. T.C. NECMETTİN ERBAKAN UNIVERSITY THE INSTITUDE OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING ORIENTATION OF CRITICAL THEORIES PRAGMATIC THEORIES BY İPEK YILDIRIM
- 2. PRAGMATIC THEORIES The second in Abram’s fourfold division is pragmatic mode. The theories of this mode emphasize the reader’s relation to the work. Towards the end of 19th century, pragmatism became the most vital school of thought with in American philosophy.
- 3. PRAGMATIC THEORIES Pragmatic theories emphasize on the reader’s relation to the work. The work is treated as something that is constructed to achieve certain effects on the audience. Effects may be for the aesthetic pleasure, instruction or any kind of emotion.
- 4. PRAGMATIC THEORIES Pragmatic theories puts the judgment of a literary work on its effect in an audience. Literary work is regarded as a rethorical product. It focuses in the way a literary work creating a beauty on the reader’s mind. Therefore, the principle to judge is the success of a literary work in delivering its aim.
- 5. VIEWS OF DIFFERENT CRITICS For Philip Sidney, a Renaissance critic, Poetry has a clear-cut purpose to achieve certain effect in an audience. Good poets are those who write both to delight and teach, or in other words, for delightful instruction.
- 6. VIEWS OF DIFFERENT CRITICS Horace says; ‘Poets wish either to instruct or to please’. Other purposes include moral improvement, emotion, and delight.
- 7. VIEWS OF DIFFERENT CRITICS According to Samuel Johnson; It is always a writer’s duty to make the world better by telling stories that result in the moral improvement of their readers.
- 8. VIEWS OF DIFFERENT CRITICS Pragmatic critics regard the poem as ‘a made object, the product of an art or craft deliberately designed to achieve foreknown ends’ [i.e., not unconscious creations whose meaning or effects are wholly or partially unknown to their creators].
- 9. CONCLUSION For convenience, we may name criticism like that, like Sidney’s, is ordered toward the audience, a ‘pragmatic theory,’ since it looks at the work of art chiefly as a means to an end, an instrument for getting something done, and tends to judge its value according to its success in achieving that aim (Abrams, 1979: 15).
- 10. CONCLUSION Briefly, pragmatic theories has an orientation to see the work as how far the author succeeds to serve the public pleasure.