Social Interpretation of Literature: Background sand critical Trajectories.

Abstract

Ancient literary models expressed the interaction of art with its surroundings in terms of social, political, historical...facts. This distinct relationship, in all its contradictions,enhanced the status of art, especiallyin its poetic literary genre, becoming the interest of critical thought since its emergence into dreamy idealism duringthe Greek era.

However, contextual studies, based on systematic scientific foundations, did not appear until the nineteenth century, influenced by the latest research and theories in the field of science and knowledge, where they benefited from sociology, psychology, history, natural science, etc.

This research aims to identify the most important origins, references, paths, and critical stations that the social interpretation of literary phenomena went through, from its inception to its effective communication and dialogue with some contemporary critical trendssuch as formalism, structuralism, semiology, and text science, using the procedures of extrapolation, description and analysis.