Literary Criticism

Feminist Criticism includes all these except for _________________.

• how to make feminist readings visible to readers

• how to make feminist readings visible to readers

• how women read about themselves

• how women do not like male writers

One of the strengths of Feminist Criticism is ___________.

• it only examines one element of the text

• it examines how women and men are represented

• it ignores the author's intentions

• it divorces literature from its larger cultural context

One of the strengths of New Historicism is that __________________________.

• the plot tends to be minimized.

• interpretation depends on the structure of the text

• the purpose of analyzing literature is to locate hidden social messages.

• meaning is not emotionally charged

What type of criticism focuses mainly on your own reaction to the text?

• Archetypal Criticism

• Reader Response Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

• New Criticism

What type of criticism looks for overarching storylines that are present in multiple different genres and individual pieces?

• Historical

• Marxist

• Reader-response

• Archetypal

Formalist Criticism studies all of the following elements except for ________________________.

• reader's emotions

• point of view

• character development

• character's motivations

Archetypal Criticism examines _______________________.

• how texts rely on patterns for their meanings

• how texts are an isolated unit

• how readers use history to analyze text

• how readers emotionally respond to the text

Psychoanalytical theory often uses which psychologist's theories to interpret literature?

• Freud

• Karl Marx

• Dr. Seuss

• Jung

Which literary theory uses an author's life and experience to analyze his works?

• historical

• biographical

• social

• psychoanalytical

If I analyze Hamlet examining his relationship with his mother, I am using which literary criticism?

• feminist

• biographical

• psychoanalytical

• historical