UIL Literary Criticism

Determines whether a work conveys a lesson or message and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world

• historical

• moralist

• feminist

• reader-response

Focuses on female representation in literature, paying attention to female points-of-view, concerns, and values

• reader-response

• feminist

• moralist

• historical

Is more of the readers own reaction to the text upon reading it that may be influenced by his/her own experiences; hence two different readers may derive completely different interpretations of the same literary text

• Marxist

• historical

• feminist

• reader-response

Tries to understand how power, politics, and money play a role in literary texts and how these elements impact the society and characters in the text

• Marxist

• feminist

• historical

• reader-response

• Marxist

• historical

• feminist

• reader-response

• reader-response

• historical

•  Marxist

• feminist

• reader-response

• historical

• feminist

• Marxist

• structuralist/formalist

• moralist

• Marxist

• feminist

• structuralist/formalist

• Marxist

• moralist

• feminist

This approach talks mainly about the elements of form– style, structure, imagery tone etc.

• a.) Historical

• b.) Marxist

• c.) Structuralist/Formalist

• d.) Feminist