Literary Criticism

Question 1

Focus on the literary elements: setting, character, plot, theme, imagery, foreshadowing, irony, etc.

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Formalist Criticism

Question 2

Understanding the social structure or way of life of a certain time period will help the reader draw conclusions and better understand the story.

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Historical Criticism

Question 3

The study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature

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Literary Criticism

Question 4

Examines poetry and art works against standard ethical and civil criteria; humanistic, societal impact, tolerance, equality, social justice and sensitivity.

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Moralist Criticism

Question 5

Emphasizes explication, or “close reading” of “the work itself”

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New Criticism

Question 6

Wrote the communist manifesto deals with class struggles

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Marxist Criticism

Question 7

Emphasizes the reader’s role in encountering a text. The reader is a much a producer as a consumer of meanings.

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Readers - response

Question 8

Focuses on the economic factors contributing to the construction of the text

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Marxist Criticism

Question 9

The literature is a stable, closed entity with definite meaning.

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Structuralist

Question 10

Rejects old historicism’s attention to biographical and sociological matters.

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New Criticism

Question 11

Since both authors and readers bring their own viewpoints to the text, the meaning of the text is built by encouraging the text. The meaning of the text is negotiated by the author and the reader.

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Readers - response

Question 12

The evaluation of literary words. This includes the classification of genre, analysis of structure, and judgment of value

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Literary Criticism

Question 13

Because of their limited role in society, women were often only minor or submissive characters in literature. Literature expressed a male perspective on all things.

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Feminist Criticism

Question 14

A theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narrative and symbols, images character types in a literary work.

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Archetypal Criticism

Question 15

Forcing their own values and beliefs onto other social groups

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Marxist Criticism

Question 16

Social forces worked to keep women from partaking in much of the literary world.

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Feminist Criticism

Question 17

Incorporating formalism, examines the relationships between a text’s ideas and its form, between what a text says and the way it says it.

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New Criticism

Question 18

Every element in the literature has no significance by itself it it determined by all other elements involved in the literature.

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Structuralist

Question 19

A critical approach, doctrine, or technique that places heavy emphasis on the style, form, or technique in art of literature seeing these are more important than or even determining the content.

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Formalist Criticism

Question 20

Sees literature as an attempt by the author to reconcile the conflicted parts of his or her psyche.

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Psychoanalytic Criticism

Question 21

Making a connection between your experiences and the text

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Readers - response

Question 22

The method used to interpret criticism provides us with the lens which ultimately reveals important views

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Literary Criticism

Question 23

Founder of communism

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Marxist Criticism

Question 24

Discovering details about the author’s life and times will help the reader develop ideas about a story.

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Historical Criticism

Question 25

Theorists are interested in identifying and analyzing the structures that underlie all cultural phenomena and not just literature.

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Structuralist

Question 26

Based on the economic and cultural theory of Karl Marx

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Marxist Criticism

Question 27

Argues that not only the author can be analyzed for internal conflict, but also one can speak about the characters in the text with a view toward their psychological states.

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Psychoanalytic Criticism