Critical Reading Literature

Formalist criticism is talking about ...

• to determine how such elements work together with the text's content to shape its effects upon

  readers.

• by actual people and that understanding an author's life can help readers more thoroughly

  comprehend the work.

• 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.

• Originally an offshoot of

  feminist movements, gender criticism today includes a number of

  approaches.

This approach reflects the effect that modern

psychology has had upon both literature and literary criticism. It's called ...

• Psychological Criticism

• Gender Criticism

• Biographical Criticism

• Historical Criticism

This approach "begins with the simple but central insight that literature is

written by actual people and that understanding an author's life can help readers more thoroughly

comprehend the work."

• Formalist Criticism

• Biographical Criticism

• Historical criticism

• Gender Criticism

According to you, Is it the same theory between Gender Criticism and Feminist Criticism?

• Yes. It is same.

• No. It's not same

This approach "examines literature in the 

     the cultural, economic, and political context in which it is written or

     received," exploring the relationships between the artist and society.

• Sociological Criticism

• Psychological criticism

• Mythological Criticism

• Reader-Response Criticism

Mythological Criticism is talking about ...

• This approach "examines literature in the 

       cultural, economic and political context in which it is written or

       received," exploring the relationships between the artist and society.

• This approach emphasizes "the recurrent universal

       patterns underlying most literary works."

• This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that

       "literature" exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a

       transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader.

• "Each text creates limits to

       its possible interpretations." 

This approach "rejects the traditional 

     assumption that language can accurately represent reality."

• Deconstructionist Criticism

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Mythological Criticism

• Sociological Criticism

This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that

     "literature" exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a

     transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader.

• Deconstructionist Criticism

• Mythological Criticism

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Sociological Criticism

A key goal for historical critics is to understand the effect of

     a literary work upon its original readers. Is this definition talking about reader response criticism?

• Yes. It's correct

• No. It's wrong

Marxist criticism "can illuminate political and economic

dimensions of literature other approaches overlook." Is this statement talking about sociological criticism?

• Yes. It's correct

• No. It's wrong