Literary Approaches Flashcards
briefly and critically summarizes and evaluates a work or concept.
●used to carefully analyze a variety of works.
Critique Paper
to judge or to evaluate someone or something
Criticize
- the paper or essay
- the product of criticizing
Critque
the person doing the criticism
Critic
sometimes called “lenses”
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 for this 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 Critics/ 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 for this is to understand the effect of a literary work upon its original readers.
Historical Critics
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
Media criticism is the act of closely examining and judging the media.
Media Criticism
This approach “examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works.
Gender Criticism
It focuses on the economic and political elements of art, often emphasizing the ideological content of literature.
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
