Approaches to Literary Criticism

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• Its concern is not only to discover meaning but also to determine whether works of literature are both true and significant.

Moralist Approach

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• It discovers the true meaning of a work by giving attention to the form or structure, elements and literary devices operating in it. a literary work can be understood only by reference to its intrinsic features, which are the elements.

Formalist Approach

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• It is a method of interpreting and analyzing a literary piece that focuses on contrasting ideas and show how they relate to the whole structure.

Structuralist Approach

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• It is used to determine whether a work conveys a lesson or message and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world.

Moralist Approach

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It examines the story's opposites, which are called ‘binary oppositions’, such as good/evil, light/dark, tall/short, etc. Binary oppositions are key to understanding a text.

Structuralist Approach