Auto-criticism

Auto-criticism in literature and art & the theory of "primary critic" by: Mehrdad Nosrati (Mehreshaer)(PHD of Persian Literature)
Auto-criticism is criticizing a text by his/her own writer. The word has its history in the fields of Ideology, Politics and psychology, but it had no theoretical base before the speeches given by Mehrdad Nosrati (mehreshaer) in the conferences held in the universities of Kerman, Iran and his paper for the ninth international convention by “Iranian Society for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature” in 2013.
Nosrati, a poet, writer & researcher in Culture & literature says that: Auto_criticism has its own practical history in the world literature, but it had never had a systematic targeted method. All what we have as Auto-criticism history is A handful of scattered comments, most of them only self-confidence figures based on no reason.
Nosrati’s research on Auto-criticism is divided to three sections.The first is a survey on many Persian texts which are gathered through a Non-Probability purposeful sampling and the analysis of them to show them being non-reason based. The next section is a closed approach to literary critical methods in the condition of “primary critic”, (who is the writer of the text, opposed to the “secondary critic”, who is any critic, rather than the writer of that text) to extract the items which are affected by the condition. He says: “Although an informed writer about literary criticism methods can do the same as a secondary critic, but his/her “extra knowledge” about the text and especially its extra-textual details, gives him/her an upper hand comparing to the “secondary critic””. The critical components to form a systematic targeted method for an Auto_Criticism approach to a text is extracted by trying any already-known criticism method in terms of “primary critic”instead of a normal secondary one. Then, the components are organized to form the new method of Literary Auto-criticism, which is capable of being used in so many other fields like cinema, theater and so on.

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