Critical Approach In Writing

Question 1

Are different perspectives we consider when looking at a piece of literature

Answer 1

Critical approaches

Question 2

6 types of critical approaches in writing

Answer 2

1. Reader - Response Criticism
2. Formalist Criticism
3. Psychological/Psychoanalytic Criticism
4. Biographical Criticism
5. Sociological Criticism
6. Historical Criticism

Question 3

How the reader response to a piece of literature

Answer 3

Reader - Response Criticism

Question 4

Two important ideas about the reader - response criticism

Answer 4

1. An individual reader’s interpretation may change overtime
2. Readers from different generations and different time periods interpret text differently

Question 5

Answers the questions how do you feel about what you have read? What do you think it mean?

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Reader - Response Criticism

Question 6

To determine its meaning focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.

Examines a text as independent from its time, period, social setting, and author’s background

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Formalist Criticism

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Two emerging principles of Formalist Criticism

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1. A literary text exist independent of any particular reader and, in a sense, has a fixed meaning
2. The greatest literary text are timeless and universal

Question 8

Views a text as revelation of it’s author’s mind and personality based on the work of SIGMUND FREUD

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Psychological / Psychoanalytic Criticism

Question 9

This approach argues that we must take an author’s life and back ground into account when we study a text

Answer 9

Biographical Criticism

Question 10

3 benefits of biographical Criticism

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Author’s Experience
Writer’s struggles or difficulties
Writer’s preoccupation

Question 11

Argues that social contexts ( the social environment ) must be considered when analyzing a text.

It focuses on the values of a society and how those views are reflected in a text

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Sociological Criticism

Question 12

Core belief in sociological criticism

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Literature is a reflection of it’s society

Question 13

Sociological Criticism 2 sub approaches

Answer 13

1. Feminist Criticism
2. Marxist Criticism

Question 14

Concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in literary text

Answer 14

Feminist Criticism

Question 15

4 basic principles of feminist criticism

Answer 15

Western civilization is patriarchal

The concepts of gender are mainly cultural ideas created by patriarchal societies

Patriarchal ideas persuade literature

Most literature through time has been gender biased

Question 16

Emphasizes economic, and social conditions

Based on the political theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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Marxist Criticism

Question 17

Argues that every literary work is a product of it’s time and it’s world

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Historical Criticism