It is all about literary criticism that can help students or teachers to have more information and ideas to know more about literature. It will help to enhance and mold the love towards literature.
3. LITERARY CRITICISM
- THE EVALUATION, INTERPRETATION, AND ANALYSIS OF
LITERARY WORKS, INCLUDING NOVELS, POEMS, PLAYS
AND OTHER FORMS OF LITERATURE. IT INVOLVES
EXAMINING THE THEMES, CHARACTERS, WRITING STYLE,
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, AND OTHER ELEMENTS TO GAIN A
DEEPER UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE
WORK. LITERARY CRITICISM HELPS TO UNCOVER THE
MEANING, SYMBOLISM, AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF
LITERARY TEXTS.
DEFINITIONS:
5. FORMALIST CRITICISM
-FOCUSES ON THE FORMAL ELEMENTS OF A LITERARY WORK,
SUCH AS STRUCTURE, LANGUAGE AND STYLE.
EXAMPLE:
-”THE SCARLET LETTER” NOVEL BY: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S,
ANALYZING THE USE OF SYMBOLISM TO UNCOVER ITS DEEPER
MEANING AND THEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE.
6. HISTORICAL CRITICISM
-EXAMINES LITERATURE IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT,
CONSIDERING THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND POLITICAL
INFLUENCES OF THE TIME PERIOD IN WHICH THE WORK WAS
WRITTEN.
EXAMPLE:
-”THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE” NOVEL BY: JANE AUSTEN,
EXAMINING THE PORTRAYAL OF SOCIAL CLASS, TO
UNDERSTAND HOW IT REFLECTS THE SOCIETAL NORMS AND
VALUES OF 19TH-CENTURY ENGLAND.
7. BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM
-EXPLORES THE LIFE AND EXPERIENCES OF THE AUTHOR TO
GAIN INSIGHTS INTO THEIR WORK AND TO UNDERSTAND HOW
THEIR PERSONAL BACKGROUND MAY HAVE INFLUENCED THEIR
WRITING.
EXAMPLE:
-”I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS” BY: MAYA ANGELOU,
EXPLORING HOW THE LIFE EXPERIENCES OF POET,
INFLUENCED HER AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORK.
8. READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
-EMPHASIZES THE ROLE OF THE READER IN INTERPRETING AND
CREATING MEANING FROM A LITERARY WORK, FOCUSING ON
THE INDIVIDUAL READER’S SUBJECTIVE RESPONSE.
EXAMPLE:
-”THE CATCHER IN THE RYE” NOVEL BY: J.D. SALINGER’S,
ANALYZING THE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS AND EMOTIONAL
RESPONSES OF READERS, TO UNDERSTAND HOW INDIVIDUAL
READERS SHAPE THE MEANING OF THE TEXT.
9. PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
-ANALYZE’S LITERATURE THROUGH THE LENS OF PSYCHOLOGY,
EXPLORING THE CHARACTER’S MOTIVATIONS, DESIRES, AND
UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHTS.
EXAMPLE:
-”CRIME AND PUNISHMENT” NOVEL BY: FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY’S,
EXAMINING THE PSCHOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS AND CONFLICTS
OF THE CHARACTERS, TO GAIN INSIGHTS INTO THEIR ACTIONS
AND DECISIONS.
10. MARXIST CRITICISM
-EXAMINES LITERATURE FROM A SOCIO-ECONOMIC
PERSPECTIVE, CONSIDERING HOW IT REFLECTS AND CRITIQUES
THE POWER DYNAMICS AND CLASS STRUGGLES IN SOCIETY.
EXAMPLE:
-”ANIMAL FARM” NOVEL BY: GEORGE ORWELL, ANALYZING THE
PORTRAYAL OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND CLASS STRUGGLE, TO
UNDERSTAND ITS CRITIQUE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE
BROADER CAPITALIST SYSTEM.
11. FEMINIST CRITICISM
-FOCUSES ON GENDER AND EXPLORES HOW LITERATURE
PORTRAYS AND CHALLENGES TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES
AND STEREOTYPES.
EXAMPLE:
-”MRS. DALLOWAY” NOVEL BY: VIRGINIA WOOLF’S, EXAMINING
THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN AND GENDER DYNAMICS TO
EXPLORE HOW IT CHALLENGES TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES
AND PATRIARCHAL NORMS.
12. POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM
-ANALYZES LITERATURE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF COLONIAL
AND POSTCOLONIAL EXPERIENCES, EXAMINING HOW IT
REFLECTS THE IMPACTS OF COLONIZATION AND THE
STRUGGLES FOR CULTURAL IDENTITY.
EXAMPLE:
-”THINGS FALL APART” NOVEL BY: CHINUA ACHEBE, ANALYZING
THE DEPICTION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY AND THE EFFECTS OF
COLONIZATION, TO UNDERSTAND ITS EXPLORATION OF THE
AFRICAN EXPERIENCE DURING AND AFTER COLONIAL RULE.
