Directions: Summarize what you have read by completing the table with what you understood. Write your answers in your notebook. APPROACHES IN LITERARY CRITICISM WHAT IT IS (DEFINITION) HOW IT IS DONE (TECHNIQUE IN WRITING) Example: Formalism This approach regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms.” A primary goal for formalist critics is to determine how elements of form (style, structure, tone, imagery, etc.) work together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers.
Answer:
APPROACHES IN
LITERARY CRITICISM
WHAT IT IS
(DEFINITION)
HOW IT IS DONE
(TECHNIQUE IN WRITING)
Example:
Formalist criticism
approach regards literature as This
“a unique form of human knowledge
that needs to be examined on its
own terms.”
A primary goal for formalist critics is
to determine how elements of form
(style, structure, tone, imagery, etc.)
ontent work together with the text’s c
to shape its effects upon readers.
This approach “examines how Gender criticism
sexual identity influences the
creation and reception of literary
works.”
This includes a number of
called – approaches, including the so
“masculinist” approach and
ism which takes as a central femin
precept that the patriarchal attitudes
that have dominated western
thought have resulted, consciously
or unconsciously, in literature “full of
produced’ – unexamined ‘male
assumptions.”
to understand This approach “seeks Historical Criticism
a literary work by investigating the
social, cultural, and intellectual
context that produced it
historical critics try to understand
the effect of a literary work upon its
original readers.
a This approach takes as Response Criticism – Reader
fundamental tenet that “literature”
exists not as an artifact upon a
printed page but as a transaction
between the physical text and the
mind of a reader.
It attempts “to describe what
happens in the reader’s mind while
interpreting a text” and reflects
, like writing, is a reading that
creative process.
It is focused on how human Structuralism
behavior is determined by social,
cultural and psychological
structures.
It tended to offer a single unified
approach to human life that would
nes. The embrace all discipli
essence of structuralism is the
belief that “things cannot be
understood in isolation, they have to
be seen in the context of larger
structures which contain them.
focuses on man’s relationship to Sociological
on, others in society, politics, religi
and business.
It tended to identify the relationship
between the characters and their
society?
Relate the story address societal
issues, such as race, gender, and
class
often focuses on female characters Feminist
who have been neglected in
criticism. Feminist critics previous
attempt to correct or supplement
what they regard as a predominantly
dominated critical perspective. – male
It tended to examine images of
women and concepts of the
feminine in myth and literature; uses
al, and the psychological, archetyp
sociological approaches;
Answer:
Formalist Crititicism
