Critical Approaches to Writing a Critique Flashcards
is a genre of academic writing.
Critique Paper
briefly and critically summarizes and evaluates a work or concept
Critique Paper
briefly and critically ___ and ___ a work or concept
Summarizes and evaluates
used to carefully analyze a variety of works
Critique Paper
novels, exhibits, films, shows, images, poetry;
Creative Works
monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, theories;
Researches
news reports, feature articles.
Media
to judge or to evaluate someone or something
Criticize
the paper or essay
– the product of criticizing
Critique
the person doing the criticism
Critic
CRITICAL APPROACHES is sometimes called
Lenses
are the different perspectives we can consider in analyzing or interpreting a text.
Critical Approaches
A way to write a critique.
Critical Approaches
This approach regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms.”
Formalist Criticism
A primary goal 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.
Formalist Criticism
This approach “seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it.
Historical Criticism
A key goal is to understand the effect of a literary work upon its original readers.
Historical Criticism
This approach takes as a 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
Reader-Response Criticism
It attempts “to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process.
Reader-Response Criticism
is the act of closely examining and judging the media.
Media Criticism
When we examine the media and various media stories, we often find instances of ___
Media Bias
is the perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner.
Media Bias
This approach “examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works.
Gender Criticism
takes as a central precept that the patriarchal attitudes that have dominated Western thought have resulted, consciously or unconsciously, in literature “full of unexamined ‘male-produced’ assumptions.”
Gender Criticism
2 examples of approach in gender criticism.
Masculist and Feminism
It focuses on the economic and political elements of art, often emphasizing the ideological content of literature.
Marxist Criticism
often argues that all art is political, either challenging or endorsing (by silence) the status quo, it is frequently evaluative and judgmental, a tendency that “can lead to reductive judgment.
Marxist Criticism
To study literature from the moral/intellectual perspective is therefore to determine whether a work conveys a lesson or message and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world.
Moralist Criticism
