2. Feminist Criticism
Gender Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Formalism
New Criticism
PsychologicalReader Response
Moral Criticism
Historical
Criticism
Colonialism
Feminist Criticism
Gender Criticism
Critic’s Point of View: Focuses on the relationships
between the genders, and examines the patterns of thought,
behavior, values, enfranchisement, and power in relations
between the sexes.
Critical Concepts:
Gender is socially constructed
Patriarchal Society
Idea of “Other”
Idea of the “subject”
3. Feminist
Criticism Gender
Criticism
Marxist
Criticism
Formalism
New Criticism
Psychological
Reader
Response
Moral Criticism
Historical
Criticism
Colonialism
Marxist Criticism
Critic’s Point of View: Literature reflects class
struggle and materialism; literature is not as works created in
accordance with timeless artistic criteria, but as 'products' of
the economic and ideological elements specific to that era;
literature reflects an author's own class or analysis of class
relations.
Critical Concepts:
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat
False Consciousness
Hegemony
4. Feminist
Criticism Gender
Criticism
Marxist
Criticism
Formalism
New Criticism
Psychological
Reader
Response
Moral Criticism
Historical
Criticism
Colonialism
New Criticism
Formalism
Critic’s Point of View:
The language of the text works as art; examines the
relationships between a text's ideas and its form—between
what a text says and the way it says it.
Critical Concepts:
Close Reading
Intentional Fallacy
Affective Fallacy
Paradox
Imagery
Ironies
5. Feminist
Criticism Gender
Criticism
Marxist
Criticism
Formalism
New Criticism
Psychological
Reader
Response
Moral Criticism
Historical
Criticism
Colonialism
Moral Criticism
Critic’s Point of View: Literature reflects the best of
society or teaches a moral that society values; literature is an
imitation of its society.
Critical Concepts:
Plato
• Cave Allegory
• Art merely imitates
society
Aristotle
• Theory of Katharsis
• Art is valuable because
it can imitate society
V.S.
6. Feminist
Criticism Gender
Criticism
Marxist
Criticism
Formalism
New Criticism
Psychological
Reader
Response
Moral Criticism
Historical
Criticism
Colonialism
Psychoanalytic
Critic’s Point of View: It requires that we investigate
the psychology of a character or an author to figure out the
meaning of a text. The internal and external conflict of the
character is analyzed using the id, ego, and superego. The
consciousness of the characters is important.
Critical Concepts:
Id
Ego
Superego
Consciousness
7. Feminist
Criticism Gender
Criticism
Marxist
Criticism
Formalism
New Criticism
Psychological
Reader
Response
Moral Criticism
Historical
Criticism
Colonialism
New Historicism
Colonialism
Critic’s Point of View:
Examines how the literature treats the historic nature of the
time in which the test is set. Examines the biographical
background of the author and his or her time period.
Colonialism: looks at issues of power, economics, politics,
religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation
to colonial hegemony.
Critical Concepts:
British Empire
Colonization
Being the Other
Colonial Hegemony
8. Feminist
Criticism Gender
Criticism
Marxist
Criticism
Formalism
New Criticism
Psychological
Reader
Response
Moral Criticism
Historical
Criticism
Colonialism
Reader Response
Critic’s Point of View:
Analyzes how the reader creates meaning while reading the
text; is NOT concerned with the author’s intent or the time
period of the author. Connects personal experiences of the
reader to the text.
Critical Concepts:
Reading is an Activity in the mind of the Reader
Meaning is made between the text and the reader when
the activity of reading takes place
Concerned with the reader’s perspective
