III. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANGLOAMERICAN CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES
PRACTICAL CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY: COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
This study aims to examine in detail the practical criticism which suggests that the text should be discussed without considering the reader, the author, the time and place of writing or any external context that may inform the reader and cultural theory which suggests that the text should be examined within a socio-cultural framework in order for the reader to understand and interpret the text more deeply. Practical criticism, which argues that practical criticism is more reliable in examining and understanding a work, obtains more objective findings and reaches conclusions, and cultural theory, which is seen as the exact opposite of this, concludes that more accurate results will be obtained by considering the text in a socio-cultural context and examining the text as a whole with its culture in the examination and understanding of a work, will be clearly stated. Findings that will clarify the reasons for the emergence of these two theories, which contain many contradictions to each other, how they emerged, how they developed and how they affect literature will be discussed.
