EAPP REVIEWER 5

• is a specialized form of writing where the reader or reviewer

  evaluates or analyzes judiciously variety of works

  Critique
• are sometimes called lenses.

  Critical Approaches
• emphasizes the form of a literary work to

  determine its meaning. It also determine

  how such elements work together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers.

  Formalist criticism
• emphasizes the importance of the author’s life

  and background into account when analyzing a text. emphasizes the importance of the author’s life and background into account when analyzing a text.

  Biographical Criticism
• emphasizes on the roles, positions, and influences

  of women. It focuses on how women are portrayed in a certain

  literary work, in arts, in commercials, in movie, etc.

  Feminist Criticism
• This approach “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 Criticism
• emphasizes that the meaning of a text

  is dependent upon the reader’s response to it or simply focuses on the meaning you created while reading a text, watching a movie or looking at a certain object. It focuses on your personal connection with and understanding of the subject of your review. It attempts “to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process. 


  Reader-Response Criticism
• emphasizes on how power, politics, and money

  play a role in literary texts and amongst literary societies and

  characters. It also focuses on how class, power, race and

  economic status affect the content and theme of a certain work.

  Marxist Criticism