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Chapter 10 Criticism
Chapter 10 Criticism
Which of the following critical approaches explores the artist's common humanity by tracing how the
individual imagination uses myths and symbols common to different cultures and epochs?
* Mythological Criticism
What is an archetype?
*a recurrent symbol
Which of the following critical approaches attempts to describe what happens in the reader's mind
while interpreting a text?
* Reader-response
Which of the following critical approaches views that no text provides self-contained meaning?
* Formalist
Which of the following critical approaches views any given text as having irreconcilably contradictory
meanings, rather than being a unified, logical whole?
* Deconstructionist
Identify the critical approach as reflected by the following question: How do the characters fare against
economic and political odds?
*Marxist Criticism
Identify the critical approach as reflected by the following question: What roles do men and women
assume and perform and with what consequences?
*sexuality