LITIRARU CRITICISM Flashcards
The study, analysis, and evaluation of imaginative literature.
Literary Criticism
What are the 5 Basic Approaches?
Formalism
Historical and Biographical Approaches
Archetypal Approach
Marxist Approach
Feminist Critism
Focus on elements such as exposition, rising action, conflict, complication, climax, falling action, and conclusion
Formalism
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.
Historical and Biographical Approach
They see works as the reflection of an author’s life and times.
Historical and Biographical critics.
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.
Archetypal critics
These critics of this approach have shown that literature reflects a patriarchal perspective of society.
Feminist critics from Feminist Approach
Focuses on characters and issues that have been neglected or marginalized in previous studies.
Feminist Approach
He developed a theory of society, politics, and economics called dialectical materialism.
Karl Marx
Karl Marx developed a theory called__.
Dialectical materialism