Critical Approaches to Literature

________ _________ attempts to explain and evaluate literature. Critics attempt to create meaning by examining many factors.

• Literary criticism

• Short Story

• Postcolonial Criticism

________ _________ emphasize the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.

• Formalist Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

• Literary Criticism

________ _________ examines the “universal” elements of human life as they occur across cultures.

• Mythological criticism

• Sociological criticism

• feminist criticism

READER + READING SITUATION + TEXT = ____________

• MEANING

• PLAY

• STORY

________ _________ focuses on the roles, positions, and influences of women within literary texts.

• Feminist Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Tenets

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

• Biographical Criticism

• Literary Criticism

• Postcolonial Criticism

Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 Possible answers)

• Formalism Criticism

• Biographical Criticism

• Mythological Criticism

• Meaning

Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 possible answers)

• New Historic Criticism

• Psychological/Psychoanalytic Criticism

• Deconstructionist Criticism

• Story

Types of Literary Criticism include: (Tick all 3 possible answers)

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Sociological Criticism

• Gender Criticism

• Short Story

_______ ______ argues that because there is no single meaning of any word, there is no single meaning of any text.

• Deconstructionist criticism

• Construction criticism

• Good criticism