Literary Approaches

It is sometimes called lenses, which are different perspectives we can consider when looking at a piece of several pieces of literature.

• Argumentative Essay

• Critical Approaches in Literature

• Writing Discourse

• Journalism

It investigates the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it. This investigation includes the author's biography and the social milieu.

• Historical criticism

• Feminist criticism

• Reader-response criticism

• Formalist criticism

Which is the approach that focuses only on the work itself and disregards any connection such as the author?

• Reader-response criticism

• Formalist criticism

• Moralist criticism

• Marxist criticism

What type of criticism focuses mainly on your own reaction to the text?

• Historical criticism

• Feminist criticism

• Formalist criticism

• Reader-response criticism

Literary works are viewed as the product of work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of class and ideology as they reflect, propagate, and even challenge the prevailing social order.

• Marxist criticism

• Reader-response criticism

• Formalist criticism

• Feminist criticism

It focuses on the roles, positions, and influences of women within literary texts.

• Marxist criticism

• Formalist criticism

• Feminist criticism

• Historical criticism

It emphasize the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.

• Historical criticism

• Moralist criticism

• Formalist criticism

• Marxist criticism

This approach takes the position that the larger function of literature is to teach morality and probe philosophical issues, such as ethics, religion, or the nature of humanity.

• Fromalist criticism

• Historical criticism

• Feminist criticism

• Moralist criticism

Why is it important to criticize a literary piece?

• helps to have a better sense of the work and form judgement about literature

• allows study different points of view

• allows study different points of view

• all of the above

It examines complications found within a capitalist system, including social structures, wealth disparities and class hierarchies.

• Marxist criticism

• Feminist criticism

• Reader-response criticism

• Formalist criticism