1. Think of one of your favorite literary characters that
made an impact on your life. Afterward, complete the
organizers that follow explaining why the character
appeals to you and why you consider him/her
important.
CHARACTER
CHART

2. My Character Chart
Katniss protected and
saved her sister,
Primrose, from being
reaped as tribute in the
cruel game played by the
Capitol.
Determined, fearless
and focused. Katniss
overcomes the immense
challenges thrown at
her by thinking
strategically.
Facts about my
character My Character's
Action
She's independent
and self-sufficient.
I love this character
because...
MOTIVATION
Story: The Hunger Games
My Character: Katniss Everdeen

3. LITERARY CRITICISM
WEEK 9: Day 1
Meeting Objectives:
Identify the following approaches:
structuralist/formalist, moralist,
marxist, feminist, historical and
reader-response.
Critique a literary selection.

4. CRITICI
S
M
C
R
I
TIQUE
"critique, but don't criticize"
"critique, but don't criticize"
"critique, but don't criticize"

5. concept of literature
fantasy or reality - fiction or non fiction
LITERARY CRITICISM
“An informed analysis
and evaluation of a
piece of literature”
"A written study,
evaluation and
interpretation of a work
of literature."
or
parameters of literary characteristics

6. Structuralist/
Structuralism
a theoretical paradigm
that emphasizes that
elements of culture must
be understood in terms of
their relationship to a
larger, overarching
system or "structure."
is produced and
reproduced within a
culture through various
practices, phenomena
and activities that serve
as systems of
signification

7. Formalist
(New Criticism)
-"a unique form of human
knowledge that needs to
be examined on its own
terms."
Goal: to determine how
such elements work
together with the text's
content to shape its effects
upon readers.
New Criticism aims to
classify, categorize, and
catalog works according to
their formal attributes.

8. Formalist
(New Criticism)
Emphasizes explication,
or "close reading," of
"the work itself."
"what a text says and the
way it says it"
The objective
determination as to
"how a piece works" can
be found through close
focus and analysis,
rather than through
extraneous and erudite
special knowledge.

9. Major premises of
New Criticism
art for art's sake
content = form
texts exist in and for themselves
formalist
Formalists value poetry rich in
ambiguity, irony, and intention, and
want to make literary criticism a
science.

10. Moralist
Examines poetry and art
works against standard
ethical and civil criteria;
humanistic, societal
impact, tolerance,
equality, social justice
and sensitivity.
Evaluates the impact
and influence of works
of literature in a
stringent moral context.

11. It focuses on the
economic and political
elements of art, often
emphasizing the
ideological content of
literature.
Hold that human
societies develop
through class struggle
between ruling classes
that controls the means
of production and
working classes.
Marxist

12. Marxist criticism "can
illuminate political and
economic dimensions of
literature other approaches
overlook."
In case of the Marxist critical
analysis, poetry is analyzed on
the basis of its political
correctness and calls for
mention of support for
workers against capitalist
exploitation.
Karl Marx

13. Feminist
Feminist critical analysis
is concerned with the
politics of women’s
authorship.
Analyzes elements like
stereotypes of women,
literary mistreatment of
women, place of women
in patriarchal societies
and challenges faced by
women in the modern
era.

15. Historical
"seeks 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."

16. Reader-
response
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.
"To describe what happens
in the reader's mind while
interpreting a text"
"Each text creates limits to
its possible
interpretations."

17. Reader-
response
Emphasizes how "religious,
cultural, and social values
affect readings; it also
overlaps with gender
criticism in exploring how
men and women read the
same text with different
assumptions."
Literary texts do not
"contain" a meaning;
meanings derive only from
the act of individual
readings.

18. #LitOrganizer
Choose one literary piece from the
selections we discussed from Term 1-2.
The chosen selection will be critique by
the group according to the graphic
organizers that will be given to you.
Determine the literary approach used in
the selection.
After 10 minutes, two representatives
each group will present the work.
1.
2.
3.
4.
assessment
A
C
TIVITY Time

19. Literary Analysis
“The Road Not Taken”
by Robert Frost
Worksheet#3:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ump
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UGyk/edit?usp=sharing
Enrichment

20. Closure
Why is it essential
to critique and
assess literary
selections using
different
approaches?