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    This document outlines 11 different approaches to literary criticism: 1. Formalistic criticism focuses on style, structure, tone, and imagery. 2. Moral criticism views literature as discussing human nature. 3. Historical criticism examines social context to understand impact. 4. Sociological criticism sees literature as a social expression highlighting class conflicts. 5. Cultural criticism explores how culture and literature influence each other. 6. Psychological criticism considers literature an expression of psychology. 7. Impressionistic criticism focuses on personal reaction without explanation. 8. Gender criticism examines influence of gender on creation and reception. 9. Mythological criticism emphasizes recurrent patterns and archetypes.

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    This document outlines 11 different approaches to literary criticism: 1. Formalistic criticism focuses on style, structure, tone, and imagery. 2. Moral criticism views literature as discussing human nature. 3. Historical criticism examines social context to understand impact. 4. Sociological criticism sees literature as a social expression highlighting class conflicts. 5. Cultural criticism explores how culture and literature influence each other. 6. Psychological criticism considers literature an expression of psychology. 7. Impressionistic criticism focuses on personal reaction without explanation. 8. Gender criticism examines influence of gender on creation and reception. 9. Mythological criticism emphasizes recurrent patterns and archetypes.

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    This document outlines 11 different approaches to literary criticism: 1. Formalistic criticism focuses on style, structure, tone, and imagery. 2. Moral criticism views literature as discussing human nature. 3. Historical criticism examines social context to understand impact. 4. Sociological criticism sees literature as a social expression highlighting class conflicts. 5. Cultural criticism explores how culture and literature influence each other. 6. Psychological criticism considers literature an expression of psychology. 7. Impressionistic criticism focuses on personal reaction without explanation. 8. Gender criticism examines influence of gender on creation and reception. 9. Mythological criticism emphasizes recurrent patterns and archetypes.

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    DIFFERENT

    APPROACHES TO
    LITERARY
    CRITICISM
    DEFINITION AND USE:
    Literary criticism is the name given to
    works written by ecxperts who
    critque-analyze- an authors work.
    It does not mean “to criticize” as in
    to complain or disapprove.
    Literary criticism is often referred to
    as a “secondary source”.
    LITERARY CRITICISM is the study,
    discussion, evaluation, and
    interrpretation of literature.
    11 DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO
    LITERARY CRITICISM
    1. FORMALISTIC OR LITERARY APPROACH

    FORMALIST CRITICISM VIEWS LITERATURE


    AS A UNIQUE FORM OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE,
    FOCUSING ON ITS ELEMENTS SUCH AS STYLE,
    STRUCTURE, TONE, AND IMAGERY. THE
    PRIMARY GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND HOW
    THESE ELEMENTS INTERACT WITH THE
    TEXT'S CONTENT TO SHAPE ITS EFFECTS ON
    READERS.
    2. MORAL OR HUMANISTIC APPROACH
    Literature is viewed to discuss
    man and its nature. It presents
    man as esentially rational,
    endowed with intellect and free
    will.
    Historical critics aim to
    comprehend a literary
    work by examining its
    3. HISTORICAL social, cultural, and
    intellectual context,

    APPROACH including the artist's


    biography and milieu, to
    comprehend its impact
    on its original readers.
    4. SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH
    Literature is seen as a social expression,
    often focusing on economics and
    highlighting class conflicts, often
    resulting in a "proleterian approach"
    that overlooks the broader social
    context.
    Literature represents a
    nation's culture and
    tradition, encompassing the
    whole complex of culture. 5. CULTURAL
    Reciprocal function
    between culture and
    literature is explored,
    APPROACH
    providing a rich
    understanding of people's
    culture and literature.
    6. PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
    Literature is considered an expression of
    personality, inner drives, and neurosis,
    encompassing the psychology of the
    author, characters, and the psychology
    of creation.
    7. IMPRESSIONISTIC
    APPROACH

    Literature aims to understand "reaction-


    response," a personal, relative, and
    fruitful concept, without explanations,
    focusing on the impact of the piece as a
    whole.
    8. GENDER APPROACH
    This approach "examines how sexual identity
    influences the creation and reception of literary
    works."
    Other goals of feminist critics include "analyzing how
    sexual identity influences the reader of a text" and
    "examine(/ing) how the images of men and women in
    imaginative literature reflect or reject the social forces
    that have historically kept the sexes from achieving
    total equality."
    9. MYTHOLOGICAL APPROACH
    This approach emphasizes "the recurrent universal
    patterns underlying most literary works."
    One key concept in mythological criticism is the
    archetype, "a symbol, character, situation, or image
    that evokes a deep universal response," which entered
    literary criticism from Swiss psychologist Carl Jung.
    A myth-critical approach generally uncovers or
    identifies manifestations of mythology in a literary
    work--whether as the creation of an original myth
    10. READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
    Reader-response criticism, then,
    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."
    11. DECONSTRUCTIONIST CRITICISM
    Deconstructionist critics reject the traditional assumption
    that language accurately represents reality, focusing on
    how language is used in a text. They emphasize the
    impossibility of making expression coincide with signified
    meaning, challenging authors' ownership and power, and
    examining how interpretations of a work are regarded as
    truth.
    THANK
    YOU

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