PPT-Literary Criticism

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 readercritic. Notes for the Director. OVERVIEW. Every production engenders a response. Directors need to grow by listening seriously and . thoughfully. to the feedback your production generates. Performance. A production is never finished until an audience watches and . CMST 450/550. Genre began as an absolute classification system in ancient Greece. Poetry, prose and performance had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story. . During . 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.. By David, Justin, and Josh. Definition. Marxist literary criticism looks at the ideology of the author. This particular method is used to explain the question of . why. an author wrote a particular piece. It does this by looking for the place of class struggle in a literary piece, and at how social classes are portrayed. Marxist criticism also looks at the time period a work was written at. For example, . From . Readings in Rhetorical Criticism . by Carl R. . Burgchardt. . Hallie Morrow, . Aunja. . Norland. , Marissa Sturm, Kia Porter. ,. Courtney . Anthony. , Marissa Flinders, Brett . Hogg & Josh . 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? . Different Ways of Looking at Literary Texts. Types of criticism. in this slideshow. Reader’s response. Formalist. Structuralist. Archetypal . Deconstruction. Feminist deconstruction . Post-structural. By: . Becca. & . Anshika. The Feministic Approach. Concerned with the impact of the gender on writing and reading. Does not simply look at the literature from female writers or female characters. 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. 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. English . 4U. by . Carlinda. . D’Alimonte. 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.. , Aidan, . and Sean . McC. . . Definition. Feminist criticism is a type of literary criticism focusing on the role of women in literature.. Centering on the style in which the piece is written, and the way it relates to women. Mrs. Crowell. (information adapted from Ms. . Klassen. ). Literary Criticism: An Introduction. A DEFINITION:. Literary Criticism is the . study, analysis . and interpretation of a literary work. . The . Psychoanalytic Criticism . Psychoanalytic.  criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses. One may psychoanalyze a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projections of the author's psyche..