literary criticism

• literary criticism - is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature
• critical approaches - are different perspective we consider when looking at a piece of literature
• reader-response criticism - asserts that a great deal of meaning in a text lies with how the reader responds to it
• formalist criticism - emphasizes the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning
• psychological/psychoanalytic formalism - views a text as a revelation of its author’s mind and personality. it is based on the work of sigmund freud
• sociological formalism - argues that social contexts must be considered when analyzing a text
• marxist formalism - emphasizes economic and social conditions. it is based on the political theory of karl marx and friedrich engles
• feminist formalism - is concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in a literary text
• biographical criticism - argues that we must take a. author’s life a d background into account when we study a text
• new historicist criticism - argues that every literary work is a product of its time a d its world
• gender criticism - examines how sexual identify influence the creation and reception of literary works
• feminism criticism - attempts to correct this imbalance by analyzing and combatting such attitudes-by question
• mythological criticism - emphasizes “the recurrent universal patterns underlying most literary works“.
• structuralism - examines how literary texts arrive at their meanings, rather than the meaning themselves.
• deconstructionist criticism - rejects the traditional assumption that language can accurately represent reality.
• post colonial criticism - is an approach to literature that focuses on the study of cultural behavior and expression in relationship to the colonized world