Literary Criticism Flashcards
The study or evaluation of literary works, including but not limited to place, poems, novels, and essays
Literary criticism
Aristotle’s poetics in the…… (Year)
4th Century B.C
Literary criticism grew in popularity during the…..
Enlightenment
What happened in the 19th century?
Criticism was published in journals and magazines
Refer to prevalent literary styles, themes, patterns, and techniques that are popular within a given time, period or among particular groups of writers.
Literary trends or approaches
This type of literary approach was most popular and had the most impact from the mid 1700s to about 1800s primarily in england.
Also termed as neoclassical style or period
These works reflected on the styles and ideas from ancient greek and roman thought and art focusing on logic, symmetry, integrity, law and allegiance
Classicism
A literary artistic and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century
Characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an empathies on the imagination and emotions
Predilection for melancholy and use of poetry in older forms
Combines fiction, horror, the supernatural, and romance
Romanticism
Is it literary movement beginning in the late 19th century similar to literary realism and its rejection of romanticism but distinct in its embrace of determinism, the attachment scientific objectism, and social commentary.
Emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the affectional portrayal of reality
Naturalism
A school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text.
Study of a text without taking into account any outside influence
It rejects or sometimes simply brackets notions of culture, or social influence authorship, and content, and instead focuses on modes genres, discourse, and forms
Formalism
Any written text that supports feminist beliefs or in the belief in the political social economic and cultural equality of women.
Feminism
A type of literary criticism based on the writings of german philosopher karl marx
It shows the relationship between literature and the social mini economic conditions under which it was produced.
Marxism
A tendency rather than a recognized school within literary criticism to judge literary works according to moral rather than formal principles.
Moralism
This approach involves understanding the events and experiences surrounding the composition of the work especially the life of the author and using the findings to interpret that work of literature.
Historical
An approach to literary criticism and analysis that focuses on how readers are actively engaged in the creation of meaning in a text.
Reader-Response
An era of literary technique in which authors describe things as they are without embellish or fantastical plots.
Works of this approach some shun flower language, exotic settings, and characters an epic stories of love and heroism. Instead, they focus on everyday lives and people in ordinary times and places.
Realism
