SYEMPRE IKAW LANG
Analyzes literature and art as products of the economic, social, and political conditions of their time, focusing on class struggle, power dynamics, and ideology.
It is the act of closely examining and judging the media.
Media Criticism
It attempts “to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process.
Reader-Response Criticism
A key goal for historical critics is to understand the effect of a literary work upon its original readers.
Historical Criticism
This approach “examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works.”
Gender Criticism
A primary goal for formalist critics is to determine how such elements work together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers.
Formal Criticism
What kind of objective criticism shows on the phrase "The words “golden”, “glow”, and “shines” creates a peaceful atmosphere."
Analysis
What kind of objective criticism shows on the phrase "The poem shows a golden sun, mountains, clouds, and a river."
Description
Judging a piece of work means giving it a rank in relation to other works.
Judgement
Provide evidence and point out what exactly influenced your understanding of the work.
Interpretation
Determining what the features suggest and deciding why the artist or writers used such features to convey specific ideas.
Analysis
Pure description of the object, piece of work, art event, etc. In writing, it could be talking about form, structure, choice of words, length, genre, etc.
Desccription
elements inside the text
Formalist
the reader’s reaction
Reader Response
social class, wealth, and power
marxist
What facts can be establish
Objective Assessment
It talks about what happens on the work?
Description
It talks about what does the work mean
Interpretation
It talks about how effective or successful it is
Judgement
It talks about what patterns and systems creating meaning
Structuralism
Approaches in Literary Criticism
Formalist, Gender, Reader-Based, Media, Structunalism and Historic Criticism
Title of Module 3
Approaches in Literary Criticism
What is the essence of literary criticism
own answer
This approach takes as a fundamental belief that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader. It attempts “to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process.
Reader-Response Criticism
Analyzes literature and art as products of the economic, social, and political conditions of their time, focusing on class struggle, power dynamics, and ideology.
Marxist Criticism