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14. Literary Criticism:
An Initiation
AP Azlison G. Bawang

20. DEFINITION …
• Literary criticism is the
study, discussion,
evaluation, and
interpretation of
literature.
• Wow … thanks a lot …
now everything is
crystal clear …
• Wikipedia rocks :)

21. Let’s try again …
• "Literary criticism is the
evaluation of literary
works. This includes
the classification by
genre, analysis of
structure, and
judgement of value."
• Beckson & Ganz
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22. And again
…
• "Literary criticism asks what
literature is, what it does,
and what it is worth."
• Encyclopedia Britannica
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23. In my own words …
• Literary criticism is the method used to
interpret any given work of literature.
• The different schools of literary criticism
provide us with lenses which ultimately
reveal important aspects of the literary
work.

24. Why do we have to
analyze everything?
• Talking about experiences enhances our
enjoyment of them
• Talking about experiences involves the
search for meaning which increases our
understanding of them
• Because Socrates said so:

25. views about criticism
• the view of criticism is directly related to
the critic’s own intellectual philosophy.
• the theory of criticism is related with the
theory of poetry.
• critical theories are closely connected
with the spirit of the age.

26. Principles of Criticism
• the pursuit of truth.
• the study of form.
• The search for the ideal.
• the creative process.
• the analysis of purpose.

27. I. Theories on
Literariness
• Classical Theories
• Medieval-Renaissance Theories
• Romanticism
• Post-Romanticism
• Realism

28. II. Critical Approaches
• Traditional
• Historical/Biographical
• Moral/Philosophical
• Socio/Political
• Psychological/Psychoanalytical
• Mythological/Archetypal
• Contemporary

29. Critical Approaches
• Contemporary
• Formalism
• Structuralism
• Feminist/Gender Criticism
• Marxism
• Post Structuralism/Deconstruction

30. The Qualities of a Critic
• He must be a man of rare organic sensibility.
• He must be a man who is widely read.
• He must have a proper training and technical skill in different branches of
literature.
• He must rise above all prejudices, personal, religious, national, political, or
literary.
• He must have imaginative sympathy. He must be sensitive and humane.
• He must possess a sound knowledge of human psychology and human
nature.
• He must have knowledge in all branches of literature.
• The critic must get at the mind of the author.
• The critic must have a philosophical mind.
• He must be of varied experience.

31. Where does good Lit
Crit begin?
• Reading
• Reading
• Reading
• Reading
• Reading
• How does one read
well?

32. Reading for College

33. The Reading Strategies
There are seven reading strategies.
Make Connections
Ask Questions
Determine Importance
Infer and Predict
Visualize
Synthesize
Use Fix Up Strategies

34. Make Connections
Text to Self (similar events in your life)
Text to Text (books, movies, T.V., etc.)
Text to Life (real world events)

35. Ask Questions
What don’t you get?
What do you get?
What words don’t you
understand?
What other questions do
you have?
What do you wonder about
as you read?

36. Determine Importance
Pick and choose which details
are the most important to
remember.
•Think about what a teacher might
ask on a test.
•Think about what the author hints
might be important later on.

37. Infer and Predict
Good readers are like detectives.
They use clues to determine what
is happening in a story.
This is called INFERENCE!

38. Visualize
 Picture in your mind the images the
author creates with his/her words.
 Pay close attention to sensory details.
For example, if you were there, what
would you SEE, HEAR, SMELL, TASTE,
TOUCH, FEEL?

39. Synthesize
Synthesize is a fancy way of saying that
you must bring everything together in
the end. In other words, what is the
meaning of what you are reading?

40. Use Fix Up Strategies
Here are some examples of Fix Up
Strategies:
☻ Re-read
☻Underline
☻Use a Dictionary
☻Read Aloud
☻Ask for Help