Historical, Marxist, and Cultural Criticism

The capitalist class who owns most of society's wealth and means of production.

• BOURGEOISIE

• PROLETARIAT

• KARL MARX

• MARXIST APPROACH

The workers or working-class people, regarded collectively.

• BOURGEOISIE

• PROLETARIAT

• KARL MARX

• MARXIST APPROACH

It is based on socialist theories. It views literary works as reflections of social institutions.

It focuses on how literary works are products of the economic and ideological determinants specific to that era.

• MARXIST APPROACH

• FEMINIST APPROACH

• MORALIST APPROACH

• FORMALIST APPROACH

It is concerned with "the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women".

• MARXIST APPROACH

• FEMINIST APPROACH

• MORALIST APPROACH

• FORMALIST APPROACH

It focuses individuals, couples, families, and professionals on a moralistic definition of relationship, life, and family processes that presumes a moral ascendancy of one value system over others.

• MARXIST APPROACH

• FEMINIST APPROACH

• MORALIST APPROACH

• FORMALIST APPROACH

It explains why a certain action is wrong - or why we ought to act in certain ways. In short, it is a theory of how we determine right and wrong conduct.

• MARXIST APPROACH

• FEMINIST APPROACH

• MORALIST APPROACH

• FORMALIST APPROACH

Its goal is to have an assessment of the political 'tendency' of a literary work, determining whether its social content or its literary form are 'progressive’.

• MARXIST APPROACH

• FEMINIST APPROACH

• MORALIST APPROACH

• FORMALIST APPROACH

It includes the language and style of writing to determine the relationship between the genders in terms of power.

• MARXIST APPROACH

• FEMINIST APPROACH

• MORALIST APPROACH

• FORMALIST APPROACH

Which of the following best describes the moralist approach in literary criticism?

• "The Power Struggle"

• "The Power of Women"

• "The Power of the Right over the Wrong"

• "The Power of the Wrong over the Right"

Which of the following best describes the marxist approach in literary criticism?

• "The Power Struggle"

• "The Power of Women"

• "The Power of the Right over the Wrong"

• "The Power of the Wrong over the Right"