Literary Theories
The literary theory based on the reader's understanding of the author.
What is biographical?
The text features a female main character.
What is minority?
The feminist literary theorist explores how this system of oppression is not only damaging to women, but also restricts the ways in which men can behave and exist.
What is patriarchy?
This story features a husband and wife who lock people in their closets and steal their money.
What is "The Music Room"?
The text in which a historical critic may look at history of fast food restaurants in the mid 1900s.
What is "Autumn at the Automat"?
This approach requires careful and extensive research into the time period in which a text was created and experienced in order to better understand the text.
What is historical?
The main character avoids anything that reminds him of his sister.
What is psychological?
The psychological literary critic looks at the ways in which this psychological concept, which deals with the part of the psyche that balances one's desires with society's standards, manifests in characters in literature and film.
What is Ego?
In this story, the main character is driven by her regret not saving a boy in childhood.
What is "Still Life, 1931"?
The main character of this story is on a journey to discover herself by moving from her small hometown.
Who is Peggy from "Office at Night"?
This approach would argue that the form and function of a literary work is determined by the common characters, settings, and situations that represent patterns in human nature
What is archetypal?
What is biographical?
The psychological literary critic looks at the ways in which this psychological concept, which deals with the part of the psyche that prioritizes one's desires, manifests in characters in literature and film.
What is Id?
In this text, Harry Bosch is a private investigator.
What is "Nighthawks"?
This is the influencing entity from "Autumn at the Automat".
What is Alfred? (who is dead btw)
This approach is focused on the unconscious desires and urges of authors and their characters.
What is psychological?
The story follows a hero as they save the Earth.
What is archetypal?
An archetypal literary critic like Carl Jung would argue that all cultures have similar thoughts in terms of characters, plots, and symbols. This is why every culture around the world has invented mazes even if they were not in communication with each other.
What is collective unconscious?
In this story, the main character changes her name from "Marge" to "Peggy".
What is "Office at Night"?
The era that "The Music Room" takes place that informs the characters' motivations.
What is The Great Depression?
The approach that analyzes the implementation of groups outside the dominant culture. This often includes feminist, African-American, Marxist, gender.
What is minority?
The text is set in a 1950s Southern town.
What is historical?
The psychological literary critic looks at the ways in which this psychological concept, which deals with the part of the psyche that prioritizes society's standards, manifests in characters in literature and film.
What is Superego?
In this text, the main character hatches a plan to scam a restaurant owner in order to pay her rent.
What is "Autumn at the Automat"?
The criteria that we used throughout this unit to evaluate how well a story achieved different aspects.
What are principles of evaluation?