formalist criticism
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APPROACHES TO LETIRARY CRITICISM
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FORMALIST CRITICISM
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This approach regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms.”
A primary goal for formalist critics is to determine how such elements work together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers.
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BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM
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This approach “begins with the simple but central insight that literature is written by actual people and that understanding an author’s life can help readers more thoroughly comprehend the work.”
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“focuses on explicating the literary work by using the insight provided by knowledge of the author’s life.... [B]iographical data should amplify the meaning of the text, not drown it out with irrelevant material.”
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HISTORICAL CRITICISM
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“seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it—a context that necessarily includes the artist’s biography and milieu.”
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GENDER CRITICISM
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Gender critics look for the reinforcement or deconstruction of gender stereotypes in literature. Because literature is timeless, it greatly influences the way society views gender differences;
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Gender criticism examines the influence of gender on the way literature is written and read. Gender criticism perceives men and women as different; they write differently and read differently, and these differences should be valued..
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Some gender critics look at works by men or women to see what approaches in these works, including language use, portrayal of characters and plots, and use of images and symbols, are essentially female or male. Other gender critics explore the effect that male-dominated cultures exert on works of literature and on writers
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Other gender critics explore the effect that male-dominated cultures exert on works of literature and on writers.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
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This approach reflects the effect that modern psychology has had upon both literature and literary criticism. whose “psychoanalytic theories changed our notions of human behavior by exploring new or controversial areas like wish-fulfillment, sexuality, the unconscious, and repression”
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“psychoanalytic theories changed our notions of human behavior by exploring new or controversial areas like wish-fulfillment, sexuality, the unconscious, and repression”
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as well as expanding our understanding of how “language and symbols operate by demonstrating their ability to reflect unconscious fears or desires”
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Psychological criticism has a number of approaches, but in general, it usually employs one (or more) of three APPROACHES.
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Carl Jung, whose theories about the unconscious are also a key foundation of Mythological Criticism. Psychological criticism has a number of approaches, but in general, it usually employs one (or more) of three approaches:
An investigation of “the creative process of the artist:
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The psychological study of a particular artist, usually noting how an author’s biographical circumstances affect or influence their motivations and/or behavior.
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The analysis of fictional characters using the language and methods of psychology.
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SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM
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is literary criticism directed to understanding (or placing) literature in its larger social context; it codifies the literary strategies that are employed to represent social constructs through a sociological methodology. Sociological criticism analyzes both how the social functions in literature and how literature works in society.
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METHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
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This approach emphasizes “the recurrent universal patterns underlying most literary works.” Combining the insights from anthropology, psychology, history, and comparative religion, mythological criticism
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“explores the artist’s common humanity by tracing how the individual imagination uses myths and symbols common to different cultures and epochs.”
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READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
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literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work.
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DISCONTRUCTIONIST CRITICISM
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“rejects the traditional assumption that language can accurately represent reality.” Deconstructionist critics regard language as a fundamentally unstable medium—the words “tree” or “dog,”
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undoubtedly conjure up different mental images for different people—and therefore, because literature is made up of words, literature possesses no fixed, single meaning.