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Youre a slob Your dress is uh interesting Is that all you were able to come up with Being criticized is an experience most of us would prefer to avoid After all criticism does not typically consist of genuine useful or respectful feedback Criticism. 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.. 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. From . Readings in Rhetorical Criticism . by Carl R. . Burgchardt. . Hallie Morrow, . Aunja. . Norland. , Marissa Sturm, Kia Porter. ,. Courtney . Anthony. , Marissa Flinders, Brett . Hogg & Josh . Definition. The best definition that I could find for Mimetic Criticism is:. Mimetic criticism judges the literary work based in terms of the "truth" of its representation of the reality of the world and of human life and character.. 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.. 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. “Money . in Jane . Austen”. Robert D. . Hume. The Pennsylvania State University. Abstract. Recent scholars have demonstrated that Jane Austen does not depict a ‘bourgeois’ world. But the attention paid to socio-economic issues of rank or class in the novels has been accompanied by relatively little specificity about the magnitude and buying power of particular sums, especially incomes. Austen lived a very straitened life in economic terms, and she was, unsurprisingly, hyperconscious of money. Each novel poses economic questions, but the difficulty of determining present-day-equivalent buying power makes it hard to judge the magnitude of the sums involved. While recognizing that ‘retail price’ and ‘average earnings’ may diverge as measures of inflation by a factor of more than thirteen, this essay argues that a multiplier somewhere between 100 and 150 produces a generally plausible equivalent today. It also argues that attention to the size and buying power of the specified incomes of Austen’s principals underlines their elite status. Bingley’s £4000–5000 per annum puts him in the top one-tenth of 1% of the population, and . Authors typically write about things they know well, the events and circumstances of their lives are often reflected in their works.. The context for a literary work includes information about the author. Have you ever been so involved in watching a movie that you react emotionally or feel a part of the action?. If so, then you have been deeply involved with a work of art.. After you see a new movie or TV program you might recommend it to a friend or tell them not to waste their time. You are judging the show and making decisions about why it was a failure or success. . It . fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. . It . calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” . - Winston Churchill. What is Constructive Criticism?. Feedback about someone else’s work. 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 . 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..