UIL Literary Criticism

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

• a.) Marxist

• b.) Feminist

• c.) Reader-response

• d.) Historical

It focuses mainly on the structure and form of the literary piece

• Historical Approach

• Formalist Approach

This approach views literary works as reflections of the social institutions of the places where the pieces came from.

• Historical

• Marxist

This is an approach that aims to understand the impact of the piece to its original audience.

• Marxist

• Reader-Response

It refers to the genre of writing whereby an author critiques a literary text. Literary texts include poetry and works of fiction like short story, fables, fairytales, plays, myths, and novels.

• literature

• master piece

• critiquing

• literary criticism

Why is it important to criticize a literary piece?

• helps to have a better sense of the work and form judgement about literature

• allows study different points of view

• enables judge if A certain literary work is worth reading

• all of the above

It is important to criticize a literary piece because _______?

Is it important to criticize a literary piece?

• YES

• NO

it analyzes textual representations from a woman’s perspective such as stereotyping and objectification of womanhood.

• FORMALIST

• FEMINIST

• MORALIST

• HISTORICAL

It analyzes a work in its eventful context and understanding the its period, author’s background and how it directly affect the author and possibly the characters of the text.

• HISTORICAL

• FEMINIST

• MORALIST

• FORMALIST