Literary Criticism

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

• structuralist/formalist

• Marxist

• moralist

• feminist

• Marxist

• historical

• feminist

• reader-response

• reader-response

• historical

•  Marxist

• feminist

• reader-response

• historical

• feminist

• Marxist

• structuralist/formalist

• moralist

• Marxist

• feminist

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

• a.) Historical

• b.) Marxist

• c.) Structuralist/Formalist

• d.) Feminist

an approach that seeks to understand the literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context.

• a.) Reader-response

• b.) Historical

• c.) Feminist

• d.) Structuralist/Formalist

It views literary pieces as a product of one’s work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of social status.

• a.) Marxist

• b.) Moralist

• c.) Reader-response

• d.) Feminist

analyze and describe the ways in which literature portrays the narrative of male domination

• Feminist

• Historical

• Reader-response

• Marxist