Creative works include novels, exhibits, film, images, and poetry.
Research includes journal articles, systematic reviews, and theories.
Media includes news reports and feature articles.
Historical Approach seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it.
Reader-Response is the readers’ own interpretation about the text they read.
Critique is a careful analysis of an argument to determine what is said and how well the points are made.
Critique is a systematic, yet personal response and evaluation of what you read.
Description is the pure description of an object such as its size, general shapes, color, texture of surface, and context.
Analysis involves determining what the features suggest and deciding why the artist or writers used such features to convey specific ideas.
Judging/Judgement is the process of assigning rank to a piece of work in relation to other works and considering a very important aspect of the visual arts.
Interpretation refers to establishing the broader context for this type of art.
Feminism Approach examines images of women and concepts of the feminine in myth and literature.
Structuralism Approach focuses on how human behavior is determined by social, cultural, and psychological structures.