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Criticism
- interpreting, analyzing,
and evaluating
- comes from Greek word
kritikos, meaning to
judge or to decide
- improves reading skill and
develops critical reading
- Literary Perspectives
- using different lenses
to understand a text
- use of literary theory or specific method,
approach, or viewpoint to interpret,
analyze, or evaluate works of literature
- types
- Formalist
- structure
- set of conventions
of accepted
practices
- detailed and
subtle analysis
- structure
- Biographical
- use of biographical information
about an author to gain insight
into the author's work
- use of biographical information
about an author to gain insight
into the author's work
- Historical
- use of information about the
time during which an author
wrote/the time is set
- use of information about the
time during which an author
wrote/the time is set
- Social Class
- refers to economic power or
social class membership
- class we belong to determines
our degree of economic,
political, and social advantage
- refers to economic power or
social class membership
- Gender
- people of different
genders see things
differently
- examine patterns of
thought, behavior, value,
and power interaction
between sexes
- people of different
genders see things
differently
- Reader-Response
- reader brings his/her own thoughts,
experiences, and moods to the text
- text is less important that
connection between reader
and text
- reader brings his/her own thoughts,
experiences, and moods to the text
- Formalist
- using different lenses
to understand a text
- Literary Criticism's
3 Questions
- Interpretative
- What does this work of
literature mean?
- What does this work of
literature mean?
- Analytic
- How does this piece
of literature work?
- How does this piece
of literature work?
- Evaluative
- Is this work of
literature any good?
- Is this work of
literature any good?
- Interpretative
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