PPT-Intro to Literary Criticism

A Song Organize your writing of stuff into three separate categories it might be helpful to create a little chart Observable facts about the song techniques sound instrumentation Your personal feelings about the song do you like it dislike it Why. 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.. 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 . 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.. Original publication date- 1925. Prior knowledge?. Gatsby Intro- Context. Post war. Pre-Crash. Prohibition. Old Money vs. New Money. American Dream. Gatsby Intro- Modernism. The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. . 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.. Different Ways of Looking at Literary Texts. Types of criticism. in this slideshow. Reader’s response. Formalist. Structuralist. Archetypal . Deconstruction. Feminist deconstruction . Post-structural. What is Feminist Literary Criticism?. Definition…. Feminist criticism is concerned with the . impact of gender . on writing and reading.. Gender versus Biological Sex. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. 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. , 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. 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.. Dead Poet’s Society. Step 1: Explore the various "levels of the mind" as they relate to characters or mass psychology in the literature. Freud separated the mind's 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 life's events is central to a Freudian analysis..