BSEE 27

An approach that draws from the students’ personal experiences, feelings, and opinions.

• Language-Based

• Literature as Content

• Literature for personal enrichment

An approach that concentrates on the history and characteristics of literary movements; the social, political, and historical background to a text; literary genres and rhetorical devices.

• Language-Based

• Literature as Content

• Literature for personal enrichment

An approach that focuses on the general awareness and understanding of the grammatical, lexical, and discourse categories of English to make aesthetic judgments of the text.

• Language-Based

• Literature as Content

• Literature for personal enrichment

A literary theory wherein literature is studied as a product of its setting: the time and place where it exists – its social, historical and cultural contexts.

• Mimetic

• Authorial

• Reader-Response

A literary theory wherein reading is a collaboration among the writer, the text, and the reader who receives the message and enriches it with his/her own experiences, thoughts, and beliefs

is also called an affective or pragmatic theory.

• Mimetic

• Authorial

• Reader-Response

A literary theory holds that the author is the sole source of meaning – literature is a very private expression of the writer’s feelings, imagination, inspiration, and intension

contends that an author consciously or unconsciously writes about the self thus, meaning is dependent on one’s knowledge of the author’s life.

• Mimetic

• Authorial

• Reader-Response

A literary theory holds that literature belongs to a continuum: it is influenced by earlier works and, in turn, influences later works and relates the work to its literary history by identifying the tradition to which it belongs.

• Literary Tradition

• Textual Analysis

• Reader-Response

A literary theory holds that a literary work has its own merit and significance and reflects the elements of a literary genre, literary devices, and style.

• Literary Tradition

• Textual Analysis

• Reader-Response

A collected oral and written works of the society which depicts the people’s beliefs, values, morals, and aspirations as well as their struggles in life.

• Culture

• Literature

• Literary analysis

The Diary of a Young Girl (The Diary of Anne Frank) by Anne Frank falls under what literary work category...

• Literature of power

• Literature of knowledge

• Literature of facts