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Q3: Literary Approaches Flashcards

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This is also known as pragmatic or affective theory.

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reader-response theory

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This theory allows a range of interpretations of a text coming from numerous readers.

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reader-response theory

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True or False

Reader-response theory acknowledges the fact that literature is used to produce or to create a particular impact or emotion as an effect to its readers.

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True

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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 a reader’s mind.

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reader-response theory

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It aims to describe what happens to the reader’s mind while interpreting a text.

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reader-response theory

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This theory attempts in making literary criticism a scientific study.

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new/formalist criticism

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It emphasizes the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.

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new/formalist criticism

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This theory believes that every piece of literature such as style, structure, tone, imagery, and other literary devices must work in unity and should exhibit a unified meaning.

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new/formalist criticism

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True or False

The impact of the reader’s experiences is significant in formalist criticism.

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False

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This criticism believes that all the elements necessary for understanding the work are contained within the work itself.

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new/formalist theory

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It examines a text as independent from its time period, social setting, and author’s background.

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new/formalist theory

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Two emerging principles in performing a formalist criticism approach:

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  1. A literary text exists independent of any particular reader and, in a sense, has a fixed meaning.
  2. The greatest literary texts are “timeless” and “universal.”
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It focuses on how human behavior is determined by social, cultural and psychological structures.

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structuralism

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The belief that “things cannot be understood in isolation, they have to be seen in the context of larger structures which contain them.

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structuralism

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It views a text as a revelation of its author’s mind and personality.

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psychological/psychoanalytic criticism

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He founded pyschoanalysis, a theory of how the mind works and a method of helping people in mental distress. This criticism is based on his work.

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Sigmund Freud

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It focuses on the hidden motivations of literary characters.

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psychological/pyschoanalytic criticism

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True or False

Psychological criticism looks at literary characters as a reflection of the author.

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True

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According to Guerin et al. (2005), this theory is the most controversial, most abused, and for many readers—least appreciated.

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psychological/pyschoanalytic criticism

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Freud’s Three Theories

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  • conscious vs. unconscious
  • three psychic zones
  • phallic symbols
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Three psychic zones and their definition

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  1. id - desire
  2. superego - prevents ID from fulfilling its desire
  3. ego - negotiating between the ID and the superego and allowing the desires of the ID to be fulfilled in a socially accepted manner
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It means or resembles a penis. It is associated with sex or sexual desire.

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phallic

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A complex of stories—some no doubt fact, and some fantasy—which, for various reasons, human beings regard as demonstrations of inner meaning of the universe and of human life.

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myth

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True or False

Mythology reveals the mind and character of an individual.

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False

people

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One of the foremost mythologist.

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Carl Gustav Jung

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True or False

Psychology reflects the dreams and desires of an individual, while mythology projects (through symbols) people’s hopes, values, fears, and aspirations.

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True

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It transcends time as it unites the past and the present (traditional modes of beliefs) and reaches towards the future (spiritual and cultural aspirations).

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mythological

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True or False

Psychology is speculative and philosophical while mythology is experimental and diagnostic.

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False

vice versa

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It is the expression of a profound sense of togetherness of feeling and of action and of wholeness of living.

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myth

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It binds a tribe or a nation together in common psychological and spiritual activities.

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mythological

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These are similar motifs and images found among many different mythologies that carry meaning.

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archetypes

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This imagery symbolizes creation, fertility, rebirth (birth-death-resurrection), purification and redemption, unconscious.

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water

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This imagery symbolizes rising (birth, creation, enlightenment) and setting (death).

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sun

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True or False

Red symbolizes chaos, mystery, darkness, death, evil, melancholy.

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False

black

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This color symbolizes truth, positive, religious, purity, security.

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blue

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This color symbolizes growth, hope, sensation, fertility.

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green

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An approach that has been evolving and argues that we must take an author’s life and background into account when we study a text.

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historical/biographical

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True or False

Historical/biographical criticism sees literary work exclusively as a reflection of the author’s life and times or the life and times of the characters in the work.

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False

not exclusive

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It argues that social contexts (the social environment) must be considered when analyzing a text.

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sociological criticism

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Two sub-approaches of sociological criticism

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  • feminist criticism
  • marxist criticism
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The core belief in this approach is that “Literature is a reflection of its society.”

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sociological criticism

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True or False

Marxism focuses on the values of a society and how those views are reflected in a text.

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False

sociological criticism

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This approach believes that men and women should have equal rights.

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feminist criticism

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Three types of feminism

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  • liberal or pragmatic feminism
  • radical feminism
  • cultural feminism
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A type of feminism that involves concrete change at an institutional or government level.

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liberal or pragmatic feminism

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It is non-hierarchical and antiauthoritarianism approaches to politics and religion.

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radical feminism

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It replaces the notion that men and women are intrinsically the same.

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cultural feminism

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Differentiate the three types of feminism

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  • liberal feminism - integrates women into power structure
  • radical feminism - eliminate male supremacy in all social and economic contexts
  • cultural feminism - celebrate qualities associated with women
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It is concerned with understanding the role of power, politics, and money in literary texts.

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marxist criticism

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Marxism is based on the political theory of ________________ and ________________.

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  • Karl Marx
  • Friedrich Engels
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It is the belief that the social classes should be abolished because they create a force in the history and society.

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marxism

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This approach aims to discover the meaning of the literature and check the truth and significance of the literary work.

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moral/ethical

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It 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.

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moral/ethical

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It is the act of closely examining and judging the media.

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media criticism

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The perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner.

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media bias

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It occurs when the media seems to push a specific viewpoint, rather than reporting the news objectively.

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media bias

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9 types of literary approaches

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  1. reader-response theory
  2. new/formalist theory
  3. structuralism
  4. psychological/psychoanalytic criticism
  5. mythological-archetypal
  6. sociological criticism
  7. historical/biographical
  8. moral-ethical
  9. media criticism

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