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LITERARY CRITICISM

Dec 10, 2012

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DEFINITION . Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Wow thanks a lot now everything is crystal clear Wikipedia rocks :) . Let's try again . "Literary criticism is the evaluation of literary works. This includes the classification

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LITERARY CRITICISM

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Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism. Class #7. Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Influences : post-structuralism, New Historicism, cultural studies, queer theory, literature and medicine, institutional bases of writers and critics, identity formation. (Norton 1615)

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Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism. Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature .

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Literary Criticism

Meaning. It is a broad term which can really refer to any discourse on the subject of literature.It is perhaps most widely used to refer to the evaluative activity of literary critics or reviewers who pass judgment on works of literature in newspapers and magazines.It is this meaning of

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Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism. Class #2. The distinctive doctrine of structuralism: “the belief that the individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue of their relations to one another” (Eagleton, Literary Theory , 94) . An example :

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Literary Criticism. 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. Not every branch applies to every work.

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Literary Criticism. Five different lenses for examining literature. . What is Literary Criticism?.

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Literary Criticism. Class #1. What Is Theory?. “a reasonably systematic reflection on our guiding assumptions” (Terry Eagleton, After Theory , p.2). Why Study Critical Theory?. Why Study Critical Theory?. To acquire tools for analysis

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Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism. What is it? What do I do with it?. Any work with a unique aesthetic quality. Texts that have stood the test of time. Works of the imagination/creative writing. Works with a particular set of qualities—e.g., plot, character, tone, setting, etc.

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Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism. The Basics of Criticism. The Basic Idea. The point of criticism is to argue your opinion of a work of literary, visual, or performance art. You don’t have to “criticize” a text; you analyze, interpret, and then evaluate a piece.

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Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism. And the Dead Poet’s Society. Freudian Theory.

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Literary Criticism. A Review of Theories. Reader response. Things to remember: The reader’s personal response to the text is the most important element… SO… this means that a text that would make for a good reader response critique ELICITS or CAUSES the reader to feel EMOTIONS

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Literary Criticism. Reading and Summarizing a Literary Criticism. Any work with a unique aesthetic quality. Texts that have stood the test of time. Works of the imagination/creative writing. Works with a particular set of qualities—e.g., plot, character, tone, setting, etc.

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Literary Criticism. A Summary of Critical Movements. Historical Criticism. One of the traditional methods. Art seen as a reflection of the author’s life and times (or the characters’ life and times)

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LITERARY CRITICISM. FEMINIST. FEMINIST CRITICISM. Concerned with the ways in which literature reinforces or undermines the… Political Economic Social Psychological …oppression of women . FEMINIST CRITICISM.

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Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism. Class # 12. Postmodernism is an age of simulation and simulacra. Jean Baudrillard “Simulacra and Simulations.” Literary Theory . 2nd ed. Eds. J. Rivkin and M. Ryan. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 365-377. Food for Thought.

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LITERARY CRITICISM. Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Bioagraphia Literaria, Defence of Poetry. Wordsworth’s view of poetry. Wordsworth deals with situations and incidents from common life He describes ordinary things as if they were unusual

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Literary Criticism. Different Ways of Looking at Literary Texts. Types of criticism in this slideshow. Reader’s response Formalist Structuralist Archetypal Deconstruction Feminist deconstruction Post-structural. Reader’s Response. Your response.

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LITERARY CRITICISM . Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’ S. M. Joshi College, Hadapsar, Pune – 28 Department of English Mr. Suresh Bhosale Class: MA ENGLISH TOPIC. DEFINITION … . Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Wow … thanks a lot …

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Literary Criticism. The paradigms and the possibilities…. DEFINITION …. Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Wikipedia rocks :). Let's try again ….

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Literary Criticism. Literary critics removing passages that displease them. By Charles Joseph Travies de Villiers in 1830. Formalism. Background: Text as a complete isolated unit

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