LITERATURE MODULE 2

• Chick lit - writing about feelings of women
• Hyperpoetry - basically a traditional work uploaded.
• Blog - a form of online publishing, communication that has gained significant popularity since late 1990
• Speculative fiction - subgenre of science fiction that deals with human rather than technological problems
• Text tula - cellphone novel, originally written on a cellular phone via text messaging
• Flash fiction - hybrid or mixed genre that consists of one part poetry and one part narrative. Also called prose-poetry
• Graphic novel - books written and illustrated in the style of a comicbook
• Literary Criticism - derived from the word kritikos, meaning judge of literature.
• Literary criticism - aims at the study of works of literature with emphasis on their evaluation
• Literary ciritc - one who expresses a reasoned opinion on any matter especially involving a judgement of its value
• Ordinary critic - one who likes or dislikes a book, movie or dinner
• Ordinary critic - evaluate but only on the basis of personal preferences
• Literary Criticism - act of interpreting literature and must be published in an academic publication such as a joural
• Good critic - has the same interest at heart as the artist possesses.
• DH Lawrence - "criticism can never be a science"
• Functions of literary criticism - judgement, evaluation, and interpretation
• In its strict sense, criticism means judgement
• Evaluation - when a critic attempts to judge the value of a work of art or literature
• Interpretation - may be employed as a means to that end
• Formalist criticism - placed at the center because it deals primarily with the text and not with any of the outside considerations
• Deconstructionist - they reach an opposite conclusion : there is no meaning in language
• Historical - relies heavily on the author and his world.
• Intertextual - concerned with comparing the work in question to other literature, to get a broader picture
• Reader-response - concerned with how the work is viewed by the audience. The reader creates meaning, not the author of the work
• Mimetic seeks to see how well a work accords with the real world.
• Psychological criticism - attempts to explain the behavioral underpinnings of the characters within the selection
• Archetypal Criticism - assumes that there is a collection of symbols, characters, and motifs that evokes the same response in all people
• Marxist - concerns with the analysis of the clash of opposing social classes in society
• Feminist - concerns with the woman's role in society as portrayed through texts