LITIRARU CRITICISM Flashcards

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The study, analysis, and evaluation of imaginative literature.

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Literary Criticism

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What are the 5 Basic Approaches?

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Formalism
Historical and Biographical Approaches
Archetypal Approach
Marxist Approach
Feminist Critism

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Focus on elements such as exposition, rising action, conflict, complication, climax, falling action, and conclusion

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Formalism

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Operates on the premise that the history of a nation has telling effects on its literature and that the piece can be better understood if one knows the times surrounding its creation.

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Historical and Biographical Approach

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They see works as the reflection of an author’s life and times.

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Historical and Biographical critics.

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They make reasonable assumptions that human beings all over the world have basic experiences in common and have developed similar stories and symbols to express these experiences.

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Archetypal critics

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These critics of this approach have shown that literature reflects a patriarchal perspective of society.

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Feminist critics from Feminist Approach

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Focuses on characters and issues that have been neglected or marginalized in previous studies.

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Feminist Approach

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He developed a theory of society, politics, and economics called dialectical materialism.

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Karl Marx

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Karl Marx developed a theory called__.

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Dialectical materialism

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