Literary Criticism

1. Approaches to Literary
Criticism

2. Approaches to Literary
Criticism
Literary criticism is the practice of interpreting
and writing about literature as the latter, in
turn, strives to make sense of the world.
Literary theory is the study of the principles
which inform how critics make sense of
literary works.

3. READER-RESPONSE THEORY
Reader response is a
school of literary
criticism that ignores
both the author and the
text's contents, confining
analysis to the reader's
experience when reading
a particular work.

4. READER-RESPONSE THEORY
Reader Response is a
critical theory that
stresses the importance
of the role of the reader
in constructing the
meaning of a work of
literature.

5. READER-RESPONSE THEORY
Reader-response
theorists recognize
that texts do not
interpret
themselves.

6. READER-RESPONSE THEORY
Reader-response
theorists recognize
that texts do not
interpret
themselves.

7. READER-RESPONSE THEORY
Even if all of our evidence
for a certain interpretation
comes from the work
itself, and even if
everyone who reads the
text interprets it in the
same (as improbable as
that might be) it is still
we, the readers, who do
the interpreting, assigning

8. READER-RESPONSE THEORY
Reader response criticism
not only allows for, but
even interests itself in how
these meanings to change
from reader to reader and
from time to time.

9. FORMALISM
In literary criticism,
Formalism refers to a
style of inquiry that
focuses, almost
exclusively, on features
of the literary text itself,
to the exclusion of
biographical, historical,
or intellectual contexts.

10. FORMALISM
The name "Formalism"
derives from one of the
central tenets of
Formalist thought: That
the form of a work of
literature is inherently
apart of its content, and
that the attempt to
separate the two is
fallacious.

11. FORMALISM
Focus on Form,
organization, structure,
Word choice, multiple
language

12. READER-RESPONSE THEORY
a critic can show how the
various parts of a work
are welded together to
make an organic whole

13. READER-RESPONSE THEORY
This approach examines a
text as a self-contained
object; it does not,
therefore, concern itself
with biographical
information etc.

14. READER-RESPONSE THEORY
A formalist critic examines the form of the work as
a whole, the form of each individual part of the
text (the individual scenes and chapters), the
characters, the settings, the tone, the point of
view, the diction, and all other elements of the
text which join to make it a single text. After
analyzing each part, the critic then describes how
they work together to make give meaning (theme)
to the text.

15. STRUCTURALISM
Focus on Form,
organization, structure,
Word choice, multiple
language

16. STRUCTURALISM
Structuralism is
primarily concerned with
the study of structures.

17. STRUCTURALISM
 reduces the importance
of a text’s historical,
biographical, and cultural
context.

18. STRUCTURALISM
refers to critical
approaches that analyze,
interpret, or evaluate the
inherent features of a
text. These features
include not only
grammar and syntax but
also literary devices such
as meter and tropes.

19. STRUCTURALISM
The Formalists read
literary texts in order to
discover their
“literariness”—to
highlight the devices and
technical elements
introduced by writers in
order to make language
literary.

20. FEMINISM
also known as feminist
criticism is the literary
analysis that arises from
the viewpoint of
feminism, feminist
theory and/or feminist
politics.

21. FEMINISM
feminist literary criticism
actively supports
women's knowledge in
literature and valuing
women's experiences

22. FEMINISM
feminist literary criticism
examines how works of
literature embody
patriarchal attitudes

23. FEMINISM
the ways in which
literature (and other
cultural productions)
reinforce or undermine
the economic, political,
social, and psychological
oppression of women

24. HISTORICISM
literary criticism in the
light of historical
evidence or based on the
context in which a work
was written, including
facts about the author’s
life and the historical and
social circumstances of
the time

25. HISTORICISM
This is in contrast to
other types of criticism,
such as textual and
formal, in which
emphasis is placed on
examining the text itself
while outside influences
on the text are
disregarded

26. MARXISM
Marxist criticism views
literary works as
reflections of the social
institutions from which
they originate.

27. MARXISM
 Marxists believe that
literary texts are a
reflection of the
economic base.
focus on the struggle
that exists between the
working class and the
ruling (elite) class.

28. MARXISM
It emphasizes persons
of the lower class and
their constant oppression
by the upper class.