PPT-Theories of Literary Criticism

English 4U by Carlinda DAlimonte This presentation is partly based on a PowerPoint by Suzann Ledford Introduction to Literary Criticism Any piece of text can be read with a number of different sets of glasses meaning you are looking for different things within the text. A Brief Guide to Major . B. ranches. What is Literary Criticism?. The study of literary works through various theoretical “lenses.” (The Branches). Every work of literature can be analyzed in a different way by each reader/critic.. Schools of Literary Theory. What is Literary Criticism?. The study, analysis, and evaluation of a work of literature. Each school of criticism uses a different focus or angle of analysis. Source: Purdue Owl Writing Lab. Major American Writers: Wallace Stevens. New Criticism. A Brief Guide to the Fugitives.  (from poets.org) . “. The Fugitive. was a literary magazine of poetry and criticism published at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1922 until 1925. Both faculty and students, including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, among others, contributed to this publication. They were practitioners and defenders of formal techniques in poetry and were preoccupied with defending the traditional values of the agrarian South against the effects of urban industrialization.. FORMALIST. By:. Haley A.. Erica C.. Elizabeth G.. DEFINITION:. A way of analyzing literature in which no outside information about history, politics, or society, is used, and no prior knowledge about the author’s life or time period is referenced. Strictly the text, and literary elements used within it. . ENGL 3370: Modern American Poetry. New Criticism. A Brief Guide to the Fugitives.  (from poets.org) . “. The Fugitive. was a literary magazine of poetry and criticism published at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1922 until 1925. Both faculty and students, including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, among others, contributed to this publication. They were practitioners and defenders of formal techniques in poetry and were preoccupied with defending the traditional values of the agrarian South against the effects of urban industrialization.. Criticism. What is Psychoanalytic Criticism?. critics begin with a full psychological theory of how and why people behave as they do, a theory that has been developed by a . psychologist /. psychiatrist. Dr. Maier. Aristotle: . Poetics. First significant work of literary criticism . Authored in 335 B.C. . Pity and Fear (Eleos and Phobos) . Catharsis. Mimesis. A Multiplicity of Approaches. Literary critics are almost never unified in their interpretation of a novel or any literary work. Why do you suppose this is the case? What factors make it virtually impossible for critics to come to a consensus regarding the meaning of a literary work? . Freud and His Contribution to Literary Theory. A PowerPoint Spectacular by C.J. Fusco. Sigmund Freud. Sigismund . Schlomo. . Freud. (1856-1939), . was an Austrian neurologist usually credited with creating psychoanalytic theory and, by extension, psychiatric therapy. . English 113. Literature-Based Research. Suzann Ledford. Introduction to Literary Criticism. Literary criticism has two main functions:. To analyze, study, and evaluate works of literature.. To form general principles for the examination of works of literature.. vs.. . New Criticism. Differences and Similarities. By: Marina . Golubeva. &. . Cristina . Popa. Russian Formalism New Criticism . Focus . on understanding the literary text through the text . Archetypal Criticism. ENG4UW - Mrs. . Crowell. Frye. , Northrop. “The Archetypes of Literature,” . 20. th. Century Literary . Criticism. . ed. D. Lodge, Longman House 1972.. Literary Criticism Review. “The study of gender, within literature, is of general importance to everyone.”. - Judith Spector. “I have a male mind with male experiences. Therefore I see things through the perception of a man. I couldn’t relate to some of Virginia Woolf’s views and I despised the way she pushed her viewpoint on the reader. This was brought on by my masculinity, I feel.”. SM ON LITERATURE. DEDY SUBANDOWO, M.A. PROGRAM STUDI . PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS. FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN. UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH METRO. SATUAN ACARA PERKULIAHAN. PERTEMUAN. TOPIK. TEAMWORK. lenses. . applied to an object under consideration; they bring certain qualities into focus or call our attention to particular issues.. . Why do we use different forms of criticism?. Literary criticism is an extension of the social activity of interpreting. One reader writes down his or her views on what a particular work of literature means so that others can respond to that interpretation. The critic's specific purpose may be to .