Critical Approaches to Literature

It focuses on the act of reading and how it affects our perception of meaning in a text lies with how the reader responds to it.

• Formalist Criticism

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Sociological Criticism

Psychological Criticism is based on the work of _____________.

• Sigmund Freud

• Karl Marx

• Howard Gardner

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

• Biographical Criticism

• New Historicist Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

He is the proponent of Marxist criticism which literary works are viewed as product of work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of class and ideology as they reflect, propagate, and even challenge the prevailing social order.

• Karl Marx

• Sigmund Freud

• Robert Scholes

It argues that every literary work is a product of its time and its world.

• New Historicist Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Biographical Criticism

It argues that we must take an author’s life and background into account when we study a text.

• Biographical Criticism

• Gender Criticism

• Sociological Criticism

It is concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in a literary text.

• Feminist Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

Some sociological criticisms can be extracted from: (tick all 2 possible answers)

• Marxist Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

In the fairy tale Snow White, a prince is needed in order to wake up Snow White by giving her a “true love’s kiss”. This is demonstrating that women need, and have to rely on men to survive, when in reality women have every capability of surviving on their own.

• Gender Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Formalist Criticism

It is sometimes called lenses, which are different perspectives we can consider when looking at a piece of several pieces of literature.

• Critical Approaches to Literature

• Journalism

• Writing Discourse