EAPP - CRITICISM

Gives appropriate background information on how texts were perceived in their time.

• A. Psychological / Psychoanalytic Criticism

• B. New Historicist or Historical Criticism

• C. Reader Response Criticism

• D. Formalist Criticism or Formalism

• E. Sociological Criticism

Which critical approach focuses on the relationship between literature and its social context?

• A. Psychological / Psychoanalytic Criticism

• B. New Historicist or Historical Criticism

• C. Reader Response Criticism

• D. Formalist Criticism or Formalism

• E. Sociological Criticism

What type of criticism emphasizes the reader's role in interpreting texts?

• A. Psychological / Psychoanalytic Criticism

• B. New Historicist or Historical Criticism

• C. Reader Response Criticism

• D. Formalist Criticism or Formalism

• E. Sociological Criticism

Which critical theory analyzes the text based on its formal elements and structure?

• A. Psychological / Psychoanalytic Criticism

• B. New Historicist or Historical Criticism

• C. Reader Response Criticism

• D. Formalist Criticism or Formalism

• E. Sociological Criticism

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

• Postcolonial literary analysis
• Historical literary criticism
• Feminist literary criticism
• Psychoanalytic criticism

Literary texts have “fixed meanings.” This means they exist independent of any particular reader or context.

• A. Formalist Criticism or Formalism

• B. New Historicist or Historical Criticism

• C. Psychoanalytic Criticism

• D. Reader Response Criticism

Which critical theory examines the impact of colonialism on literature and culture?

• A. Postcolonial Criticism

• B. Feminist Criticism

• C. Marxist Criticism

• D. Reader Response Criticism

What approach focuses on the psychological motivations of characters within a literary work?

• A. Psychoanalytic Criticism

• B. Formalist Criticism

• C. Historical Criticism

• D. Sociological Criticism

Which critical perspective emphasizes the social and political contexts that shape a text's meaning?

• A. New Historicist Criticism

• B. Reader Response Criticism

• C. Structuralist Criticism

• D. Formalist Criticism

Uses in-depth character analysis to understand ulterior motives of the characters.

• A. Sociological Criticism

• B. Feminist Criticism or Feminism

• C. Psychological / Psychoanalytic Criticism

• D. Formalist Criticism or Formalism