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Literary Criticism
ENG3UI – 2012/2013Mrs. Crowell(information adapted from Ms. Klassen)
Slide2Literary Criticism: An Introduction
A DEFINITION:Literary Criticism is the study, analysis and interpretation of a literary work. The process of analysis is to examine literature through
varied lenses
to comment and judge the content’s qualities and techniques while understanding how it comments on the value of society.
Slide3Literary Criticism: An Introduction
A METAPHOR:Literary critics wear lenses when they read texts.These lenses colour or
“filter”
the way they experience, perceive and analyze a text.
Slide4Reader Response Criticism
“The
systematic examination of the aspects of the text that arouse, shape, and guide a reader's
response”
(Henderson
).
Slide5What is “Reader Response”?
Focuses on the activity of reading a work of literature.Puts forward the idea that a reader’s perception
becomes more important than the plot, narration, characters, style and structure of the
work.
Slide6What is “Reader Response”?
Recognizes that there are limitations on the number and kinds of interpretations that are possible: the text itself limits theses interpretations.Proposes that a reader interacts with two bodies of information that influence an interpretation: personal experiences and the text
itself
.
Slide7Slide8Three Schools of Thought
Individualists – each reader has a unique set of experiences and beliefs that shape his or her interpretation of the text; therefore, each interpretation will be different.Uniformists
– there is one hypothetical reader – an “implied reader” who the author imagines when
writing.
Social Readers
– “interpretive communities” that have shared beliefs and values and therefore common understandings of a text; the group determines
an
acceptable interpretation of a
text.
Slide9Slide10Questions for the
Reader Response Lens:
What
personal qualities or events relevant to this particular text might influence my response?
How does the interaction of text and reader create meaning?
What does a phrase-by-phrase analysis of a short literary text, or a key portion of a longer text, tell us about the reading experience
prestructured
by (built into) that text?
Do the sounds/shapes of the words as they appear on the page or how they are spoken by the reader enhance or change the meaning of the word/work?
How might we interpret a literary text to show that the reader's response is, or is analogous to, the topic of the story?
What does the body of criticism published about a literary text suggest about the critics who interpreted that text and/or about the reading experience produced by that text?
You will find these questions on your worksheet!
(I just included them here for future reference…)
Slide11Questions for the Reader Response
LensWith a partner, use the questions on the worksheet provided to analyze and examine the following two poems…“My Song” by Rabindranath Tagore (p. 239
Viewpoints 11
)
“You Walked Gently Towards Me”
by
Ben
Okri
(p. 241
Viewpoints 11
)
Slide12The Starry Night Vincent van Gogh (1889)