ENG104 Lesson 4 Flashcards
It is the practice of interpreting and writing about literature as the latter, in turn, strives to make sense of the world.
Literary Criticism
It is the study of the principles which inform how critics make sense of literary works.
Literary Theory
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Types of Approaches in Literary Criticism
- Formalist Criticism
- Reader-Response Criticism
- Feminist Criticism
- Historical Criticism
- Media Criticism
- Marxist Criticism
- Structuralism Criticism
It refers to a style of inquiry that focuses, almost exclusively, on features of the literary text itself, to the exclusion of biographical, historical, or intellectual contexts.
Formalist Criticism
All the elements necessary for understanding the work are contained within the work itself.
Formalist Criticism
This means the focus is more on the choice of words and the way it is being structured.
Formalist Criticism
This is a school of literary criticism that ignores both the author and the text’s contents, confining analysis to the reader’s experience when reading a particular work.
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
The literary analysis that arises form the viewpoint of feminism, feminist theory and/or feminist politics.
Feminist Criticism
It focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of socio-political, psychological, and economic oppression. It also reveals how aspects of our culture are patriarchal.
Feminist Criticism
It explores the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts surrounding the creation and reception of a work of literature; it uses history as a means of understanding a literary work more clearly.
Historical Criticism
It is the act of closely examining and judging the media. When we examine the media and various media stories, we often find instances of media bias.
Media Criticism
It is the perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner.
Media Bias
It occurs when the media seems to push a specific viewpoint, rather than reporting the news objectively.
Media Bias
It is concerned with differences between economic classes and implications of a capitalist system, such as the continuing conflicts between the working class and the elite. Hence, it attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of people’s experience is the socioeconomic system.
Marxist Criticism
