Literary Criticism

What question might someone doing an archetypal criticism ask?

• What social classes do I see represented in the text?

• Why did the author break the chapters where they did?

• Does the main character seem similar to other main characters in several other novels I've read?

• What was going on in the world during the time when the author published the book?

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

When might a formalist lens help you determine meaning?

• anytime!

• never. It's quite useless

• only when you can't determine a deeper understanding of a piece

• only when your teacher asks you to use that lens

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

• reader's emotions

• point of view

• character development

• character's motivations

These are the different perspectives we consider when looking at a piece of literature.

• Literary Theories

• Literary Criticisms

• Critical approach

A Criticism that views a text as a revelation of its author’s mind and personality. It is based on the work of Sigmund Freud.

• Psychological

• Physiological

• Phsycological

• Physio analysis

The following are Sigmund Freud's theory of mind except ...

• Id

• Ego

• Super Ego

• Super Id

A criticism that argues that social contexts must be considered when analyzing a text.

• Sociological

• Feminist

• Marxist

Concerned with understanding the role of power, politics, and money in literary texts

• Feminist

• Marxist

• Marxism

• Feminism