Definitions
Definitions
Side Facts
Side Facts
Side Facts
100
Concerned with content, ideas, and values; determines whether literature conveys a lesson. 
What is Moral or Intellectual Analysis?
100
Stresses relationship between literature and its historical period. 
What is Historical or Topical Analysis?
100

Justifies the parallel reading of both literary and nonliterary texts to bring an informed understanding of the context of a literary work; assumes history is not a fixed essence, but a literary construction through which society views itself. 

What is New Historicism? 
100
This approach can give way to "message hunting" or "preaching". 
What is Moral or Intellectual Analysis? 
100
A criticism of this approach is that it deals with the background of works rather than the work itself. 
What is Historical or Topical Analysis? 
200
Attempts to find relationships or connections among elements that appear to be separate and unique; attempts to discover forms that unify literature. 
What is Structuralist Analysis?
200
Analyzes female and male divides in literature, as well as literature's interpretation by both genders or queer audiences. 
What is Feminist/Gender/Queer Analysis? 
200
This approach focuses on behaviors and motives. 
What is Psychological or Psychoanalytical Analysis? 
200

Seen as a reaction against Historical Analysis as it focuses on the literary work alone. 

What is Formalist or New Critical Analysis? 

200
Allows critics to discuss works from widely separate cultures and time periods.
What is Structuralist Analysis? 
300
This analysis is used to explain characters or analyze authors and the artistic process; approach almost treats literature as information about patients in therapy. 
What is Psychological/Psychoanalytical Analysis?
300
This analysis suggests that human life is built out of patterns that are similar throughout various cultures and historical periods. 
What is Archetypal or Symbolic or Mythical Analysis?
300
This approach focuses not on persuasion, but on pure analyzation of a text.
What is Moral or Intellectual Analysis? 
300
Searches for literary works that feature God's creation of man, a sacrifice of a hero, the search for paradise, and/or universal human consciousness. 
What is Archetypal or Symbolic or Mythic Analysis? 
300
The Feminist/Gender/Queer Analysis began in this decade. 
What is the 1960's?
400
Focuses on literature as formal works of art. 
What is Formalist or New Critical Analysis?
400
Focuses on the audiences' perception, interpretation, and reaction to a literary text. 
What is Reader-Response Analysis?
400
Assumes that everything within a literary work was intended, that there are no accidents in literature. 
What is New Critical or Formalist Analysis?
400
He is credited with the popularity of the Psychological/Psychoanalytic Analysis. 
Who is Sigmund Freud? 
400
He is credited with the development of the Archetypal/Symbolic/Mythic Analysis. 
Who is Carl Jung? 
500
Focuses on persons of the lower class who spend their lives in endless drudgery and misery, and whose attempts to rise to the top usually results in renewed oppression. 
What is Economic Determinist or Marxist Analysis?
500
Aims to find disunities and disruptions in literature; begins with formalistic analysis, then undermines interpretation to yield a new one. 
What is Deconstructionist Analysis?
500
Stems from phenomenology. 
What is Reader-Response Analysis? 
500
This analysis is often associated with "proletarian" literature.
What is Economic Determinist or Marxist Analysis? 
500
Assumes that there are no final nor absolute interpretations of literary texts. 
What is Deconstructionist Analysis? 
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