Literary Criticism

• Biographical criticism is the practice of analyzing literary work by using the knowledge of the author's life to gain insight.
• Historical criticism is the practice of analyzing literary work by analyzing the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it, including the author's biography and milieu.
• Psychological criticism is the application of the analytical tools of psychology and psychoanalysis to authors and/or fictional characters in order to understand the underlying motivations and meanings of a literary work.
• Mythological criticism is the practice of analyzing literary work by looking for recurrent universal patterns.
• Sociological criticism is the practice of analyzing literary work by examining the cultural, economic, and political context in which it was written or received.
• Sociological Criticism primarily explores the relationship between the artist and society.
• Formalist criticism is a school of criticism that focuses on the form of a literary work.
• Biographical criticism is the practice of analyzing literary work by using the knowledge of the author's life to gain insight.
• Historical criticism is the practice of analyzing literary work by analyzing the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it, including the author's biography and milieu- a person's social environment.
• Psychological criticism is the application of the analytical tools of psychology and psychoanalysis to authors and/or fictional characters in order to understand the underlying motivations and meanings of a literary work.
• Mythological criticism is the practice of analyzing literary work by looking for recurrent universal patterns.
• Mythological Criticism explores the ways an individual imagination uses myths and symbols shared by different cultures and epochs- (a period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics)
• Sociological criticism is the practice of analyzing literary work by examining the cultural, economic, and political context in which it was written or received.
• Gender criticism is the examination of the ways in which sexual identity influences the creation, interpretation, and evaluation of literary works.
• Feminism, gay culture, and men's movement all play key roles in gender criticism.
• Reader-response criticism is the practice of analyzing literary work by describing what happens in the reader's mind while interpreting the text, on the assumption that no literary text exists independently on the reader's interpretations and that there is no single fixed interpretation of any literary work.
• Deconstructionist criticism is a school of criticism that rejects the traditional assumption that language can accurately represent reality.
• Deconstructionists believe that literary text can have no single meaning; therefore, they concentrate their attention on how language is being used in a text, rather than what it is being said.
• Cultural studies is a contemporary disciplinary field of academic study that focuses on understanding the social power encoded in "texts", which may include analyzable phenomena from a traditional poem to an advertising image or actor's face.
• Moral-philosophical criticism believes that the purpose of literature is to teach morals and probe philosophical issues or ideas.
• Marxist criticism concerns with the analysis of the clash of the opposing social classes in the society, namely, the ruling class (bourgeoisie) and the working class (proletariat) as it shaped the events that transpired in the story.
• Mimetic criticism seeks to see how well a work accords with the real world.
• Archetypal criticism assumes that there is a collection of symbols, images, characters, and motifs that evoke basically the same response in all people which seems to bind them regardless of culture and race worldwide.
• Inter-textual criticism is concerned with comparing the work in question to other literature, to get a broader picture.
• Moral-philosophical criticism - believes that the purpose of literature is to teach morals and probe philosophical issues or ideas