Literary Approaches Flashcards
It is concerned with the ways in which cultures wield symbols (languages and images) to describe and demarcate gender roles, and to also instruct people on how to perform these roles while also disciplining those who may venture outside the established norm.
GENDER CRITICISM
It analyzes a writer’s ___________ to show the relationship between the author’s life and their works of literature. Not exclusive as a reflection of its author’s life and times. This can be used with discretion and insight or employed as a superficial shortcut to understand the literary work on its own terms.
BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM
It is directed to understand literature in its larger social context; it codifies the literary strategies that are employed to represent social construct. It analyzes both how the social functions in literature and how literature works in society.
SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM
It uncovers or identifies manifestations of mythology in a literary work – whether as the creation of an original myth, as the appropriation of a traditional mythological figure, story, or place, or in the form of allusions and uses these mythological elements to aid interpretation of the work.
MYTHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
It is placed at the center because it deals primarily with the text and not with any of the outside considerations such as the author, the real world, audience, or other literature. Meaning, ________ argue, is inherent in the text. Because meaning is determinant, all other considerations are irrelevant.
FORMALIST CRITICISM
It relies heavily on the author and his world. In the historical view, it is important to understand the author and his world in order to understand his intent and to make sense of his work. In his view, the work is informed by the author’s beliefs, prejudices, time, and history, and to fully understand the work, we must understand the author and his age.
HISTORICAL CRITICISM
It subjects texts to careful, formal analysis; however, they reach an opposite conclusion: there is no meaning in language. They believe that a piece of writing does not have one meaning and the meaning itself is dependent on the reader.
DECONSTRUCTIONIST CRITICISM
It attempts to explain the behavioral underpinnings of the characters within the selection, analyzing the actions and thoughts committed fall under any of
the identifiable neuroses, whether a __________ disorder is evident among them. Aside from the characters, the author and even the reader may be criticized as why they exhibit certain behavior during the actual writing and reading experience
PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
It is concerned with how the work is viewed by the audience. In this approach, the reader creates meaning, not the author or the work. Once the work is published, the author is no longer relevant.
READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
It concerns the woman’s role in society as portrayed through texts. It typically analyzes the plight of women as depicted in the story. Generally, it criticizes the notion of woman as a construct through literature.
FEMINIST CRITICISM
It concerns with the analysis of the clash of opposing social classes in society, namely; the ruling class (bourgeoisie) and the working class (proletariat) as it shaped the events that transpired in the story.
MARXIST CRITICISM
It assumes that there is a collection of symbols, images, characters, and motifs (i.e. _________) that evokes basically the same response in all people which seem to bind all people regardless of culture and race worldwide. This can also be labelled as Mythological and Symbolic criticisms. Their critics identify these archetypal patterns and discuss how they function in the work
ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM
It is concerned with comparing the work in question to other literature, to get a broader picture. One may compare a piece of work to another of the same author, same literary movement or same historical background.
INTERTEXTUAL CRITICISM
It seeks to see how well a work accords with the real world. How does a piece of literature accurately portray the truth is the main contention of this literary approach.
MIMETIC CRITICISM
