Quarter 2: Lesson 1 (Literary Criticism)

Question 1

In literature, we evaluate and interpret literary texts based on their intellectual, artistic, and aesthetic value. In short, we (_______) them

Answer 1

Critique

Question 2

• study, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of literature
• it judges the value of a work
• a body of work is evaluated according to its aesthetic value, historical/cultural/social significance of the work, use of language, and insights of the work

Answer 2

Literary Criticism

Question 3

who quoted this: “a true critic is an ally of the artist”

Answer 3

Scott James

Question 4

• Formulate on the idea that any literary text is autonomous - it should be read as something beyond the influence of culture or society
• It rejects the perceived connection between the text and the author
• Text should be critiqued based only on its inherent characteristics, including its form

Answer 4

Formalism

Question 5

• The term is derived from Karl Marx; a German philosopher and scholar who theorized about society and history
• This school of critical theory focuses on power and money in works of literature

Answer 5

Marxism

Question 6

He wrote literary pieces declaring that all of history has been a history of class struggles

Answer 6

Karl Marx

Question 7

• A critical approach that relates the text to the larger, wider structure through inter-textual connections or repetitive pattern
• Text is NOT autonomous but should be analyzed within wider social and cultural contexts

Answer 7

Structuralism

Question 8

• It reads a text within social context
• It analyzes textual representations from the woman’s perspective, such as those involve in stereotyping and “objectification of womanhood

Answer 8

Feminism

Question 9

• Requires that you apply to a text specific historical information about the time during which an author wrote
• In this case, refers to the social, political, economic, cultural, and/or intellectual climate of the time

Answer 9

Historical

Question 10

• Deals with a work of literature primarily as an expression, in fictional form, of the personality, state of mind, feelings, and desires of its author
• The assumption of ____________ critics is that a work of literature is correlated with its author’s mental traits

Answer 10

Psychological or Psychoanalytic

Question 11

• Suggests that the larger purpose of literature is to teach morality and to probe philosophical questions
• It is believed that author intend to instruct the audience in some way. This approach forces readers to dig deeper, discover the moral values, and ask questions instead of accepting things the way they seem

Answer 11

Moral/Philosophical

Question 12

• a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of () studies (often, formerly, gay, and lesbian studies) and women’s studies
• associated with the study and theorization of gender and sexual practices that exist outside of heterosexuality, and which challenge the notion that heterosexual desire is ‘normal’

Answer 12

Queer

Question 13

autonomous means?

Answer 13

independent/text is under discussion

Question 14

believe in coherent, universal systems that may be probed suing the “GRAMMAR” of a text

Answer 14

Structuralists