WorksheetsApproaches to Literary Criticism
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
An approach to literature that assumes that there is a collection of symbols, images, characters, and motifs that evoke a similar response in all people.
Psychological Approach
Philosophical Approach
Mythological/Archetypal Approach
Structuralist Approach
________ critics attempt to correct or supplement what they regard as a predominantly male-dominated critical perspective.
Marxist
Reader Response
Formalist
Feminist
This literary criticism relies on the theory by Sigmund Freud which explains the human mind.
Biographical Criticism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Philosophical Criticism
New Criticism
This approach focuses on binary oppositions that often appear in literary constructs.
Feminist Approach
Marxist Approach
Structuralist Approach
Archetypal
This criticism is a shift away from the older styles of criticism that focused on the author and historical time period.
New Criticism
Moral/Philosophical
Deconstruction
Feminist Criticism
The practitioners of this criticism emphasize the role of ideology and class as they reflect, propagate, and even challenge the prevailing social order.
Psychological
Structuralist
Marxist
New Criticism
This approach focuses on moral statements, themes, view of the world, author's philosophy, etc.
Psychological
Historical/Biographical
Moral/ Philosophical
New Criticism
According to Lois Tyson, this theory "maintains that WHAT A TEXT IS cannot be separated from WHAT IT DOES."
Formalism
Reader Response
Deconstruction
Moral/Philosophical
This literary approach deems it necessary to know about the author and the political, economic, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand the work/s.
Traditional Approach
New Criticism
Marxist
Historical/Biographical
Reader Response Criticism can take a number of different approaches.
True
False
