English LITERARY CRITICISM

• FiNANCIAL LiTERACY

  is the education and understanding of knowing how money is made, spent, and saved. It also includes the ability to use financial resources to make decisions on generating, investing, spending, and saving money.
• MARXiST APPROACH

  is a literary criticism based on socialist theories which point out the series of struggles between classes- the oppressed and the oppressors.
• • Bourgeois, or the people who control capital and the means of production.
  • Class struggles, or the difference in wealth, power, and esteem.
  • Ideology, or the ideas, values, and feelings through which individuals experience their societies.
  • Proletariat, or the people who provide labor.
• In the patriarchy's general structure, men have power over women. A patriarchal society is a male-dominated power structure throughout an organized society and in individual relationships; power is said to be related to privilege in work or school contexts. On the other hand, the feminist movement is about equality for women.
• Marxist

  • It focuses on the economic and political elements of art, often emphasizing the ideological content of literature.
  • Hold that human societies develop through class struggle between ruling classes that controls the means of production and working classes.

  Karl Marx
• • Feminist critical analysis is concerned with the politics of women's authorship.
  • Analyzes elements like stereotypes of women, literary mistreatment of women, place of women in patriarchal societies and challenges faced by women in the modern era.
• fantasy or reality - fiction or non fiction
• LITERARY CRITICISM

  "An informed analysis and evaluation of a piece of literature*

  or

  "A written study, evaluation and

  interpretation of a work of literature."
• • a theoretical paradigm that emphasizes that elements of culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or "structure."
  • is produced and reproduced within a culture through various practices, phenomena and activities that serve as systems of signification

  Structuralist/ Structuralism
• • -"a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms."
  • Goal: to determine how suchelements

  work

  together with the text's content to shape its effects upon readers.

  • New Criticism

  aims to

  classify,

  categorize, and

  catalog works according to their formal attributes.

  Formalist (New Criticism)
• Emphasizes explication. or"closereading,""the work itself."

  of

  • "what a text says and the way it says it"
  • The objective determination as to

  "how a piece works" can be found through close focus and analysis, rather than through extraneous and erudite special knowledge.

  Formalist (New Criticism)
• Major premises of New Criticism

  • art for art's sake
  • content = form
  • texts exist in and for themselves
• Formalists value poetry rich in ambiguity, irony, and intention, and want to make literary criticism a science.
• • Examines poetry and art works against standard ethical and civil criteria; humanistic, societal impact, tolerance, equality, social justice and sensitivity.
  • Evaluates the impact and influence of works of literature in astringent moral context.

  moralist
• "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."

  historical
• • Takes as a fundamental tenet that "literature" exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader.
  • "To describe what happens in the reader's mind while interpreting a text"
  • "Each text creates limits to its possibleinterpretations."
  • Reader response
• • Emphasizes how "religious, cultural, and social values affect readings; it also overlaps with gender criticism in exploring how men and women read the same text with different assumptions."
  • Literary texts do not"contain" a meaning;meanings derive only from the act of individual readings.
  • reader-response
• The sun is a hot ball of glowing gases, about 109 times larger than the Earth and 330,000 times more massive, with a surface temperature of about 9,940 degrees Fahrenheit

  
• All goats are mammals - ALWAYS TRUE
• Chocolates are good for everyone - NOT ALWAYS TRUE
• A human will die without oxygen - ALWAYS TRUE
• "If I am rich, then I am happy" - NOT ALWAYS TRUE
• Fiction refers to literature created from imagination, read to entertain, while nonfiction is based on fact, read to inform
• Economic prosperity refers to a country's economic growth, security, and competitiveness, essential for quality of life and global competitiveness
• Physical fitness is a necessary goal, especially during the pandemic, with increasing awareness about health and finances
• Analyzing literary texts like "Perfect Fit Formula" and "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is essential for insights in health and economic crisis
• Visiting the school library to classify literary works as fiction or nonfiction, providing brief descriptions to validate the classification
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