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Dead Poets Society Step 1 Explore the various levels of the mind as they relate to characters or mass psychology in the literature Freud separated the minds force into a trinity id instinct of character ego realistic part of the character and superego moralizing part of the character The way characters use these three mental powers to navigate lifes events is central to a Freudian analysis. 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 . 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.. 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.. 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. . 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. 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. Most controversial, most abused, least appreciated form. Associated with Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) and his followers. Creative writing (like dreaming) represents the (disguised) fulfillment of a (repressed) wish or fear. “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.”. What you need to know to about critiquing . Fault vs. Structure. Criticism finds fault. It states only problems without presenting evidence. It is based only on emotion.. Critique looks at structure. It looks at the “How,” “What,” and “Worth.” . 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.. 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 .