STANDARDS OF A GOOD AND LITERARY THEORIESLITERATURE Flashcards
natural aesthetic appeal depending on the genre
Ruth Elynia Mabanglo: Kung Ibig mo akong Makilala
ARTISTRY
provoke the critical value
Intellectual Value
emotional power (imagine)
e.g. BODY WITH ANOTHER
SUGGESTIVENESS
Tool for the foundation of religion
SPIRITUAL VALUE
Readaptation; Open new worlds of meaning and experience
PERMANENCE
Applicable to all
UNIVERSALITY
expressions of identities
e.g. ANDY V. TUBIG
STYLE
refers to the various unwritten and written works by Filipinos.
It also shows the diversity of Philippine culture.
Philippine literature
How characters are transformed and created in the text based on their economic situation
MARXIST THEORY
How characters from colonial powers such as Britain, France, America construct
characters from Africa or other colonies.
POST-COLONIAL THEORY
It is a general type of theory in literature concerned with how the society within which a particular work of literature affects the themes and structure of the literary piece.
CULTURAL CRITICISM
Focused on how well a literary piece is written in terms of language, imagery, and internal unity among others.
RUSSIAN FORMALISM
Attempts to demystify the meaning of symbolisms and aim to create a single interpretation of those symbols.
STRUCTURALISM
It is an outcrop of structuralism which claims that a symbol can have several meanings depending on the society within which the symbol was created.
POST-STRUCTURALISM
Seen as being vague and meaningless; Impossible to know its meaning.
DECONSTRUCTION
Aims to eliminate the economic, ideological, and social gaps between men and women. It is focused on making sure women are treated justly in text.
FEMINIST THEORY
This literary theory seeks to dismantle gender stereotypes by examining the dynamics of feminine and masculine traits in literature.
QUEER THEORY
Focuses on the structures of the conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds. It sees literature as manifestation and wish-granting mechanism of the deepest, darkest desires of the writer.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Posited by Levi Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative ‘sense’, is formed on the analogy of the morpheme
mytheme
the smallest unit of grammatical sense
morpheme
