LITERARY CRITICISM

21st Century Literature of the

Philippines and the World
WHAT IS LITERARY
CRITICISM?
 WHAT IS LITERARY CRITICISM?
This is the comparison, analysis, interpretation,
and/ or evaluation of literary works.
 LITERARY CRITICISM HELPS US;
1. understand what is essential about the text
2. allow us to see the relationship between the
authors, readers, and text
3. enhance the enjoyment of our reading
 FUNCTIONS OF LITERARY CRITICISM
1. to analyze, study, and evaluate works of
literature
2. to form general principles for the examination
of works of literature.
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READER'S- RESPONSE CRITICISM

it attempts “to describe what happens in
the reader’s mind while interpreting a
text” and reflects that reading, like
writing, is a creative process.
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BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM
focuses on explicating the literary work by
using the insight provided by knowledge
of the author’s life.
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HISTORICAL CRITICISM
investigating the social, cultural, and
intellectual context that produced it- a
context that necessarily includes the
artist’s biography and milieu.
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SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM
examines literature in the cultural,
political, and economic context in which it
is written or received, exploring the
relationship between the artist and the
society.
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MARXIST CRITICISM
focuses on money, power, control, and
social institutions such as the government
and the family. Marxist critics are
interested on how the lower or working
classes are oppressed in everyday life and
in literature
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CULTURAL CRITICISM
deals with the investigation of the text’s
cultural context. This form of criticism
examines how different religions,
ethnicity, class identifications, political
beliefs, and views affect the ways in which
text are created and interpreted.
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GENDER CRITICISM
examines how sexual identity influences
the creation and reception of literary
works.
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FORMALISM
particular interest to the formalist critic
are the elements of form- style, structure,
tone, imagery, etc- that are found within
the text. A primary goal for formalist
critics is to determine how such elements
work together with the text’s content to
shape its effects upon reader.
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STRUCTURALISM
is the analysis on how a literary text arrive
at their meanings rather than the meaning
themselves. A structuralist critic has
particular interest on choice of words,
punctuation marks, italics, capitalization,
grammar and others.
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STRUCTURALISM
is the analysis on how a literary text arrive
at their meanings rather than the meaning
themselves. A structuralist critic has
particular interest on choice of words,
punctuation marks, italics, capitalization,
grammar and others.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
seeks to analyze the author's
unintended message.
the author desires to state his
emotions, mental feeling, and flow of
thoughts through producing
characters that would explain his
longings or feelings.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
The main goal is to understand how
language and symbols operate by
demonstrating their ability to reflect
unconscious fears and desires.
Furthermore, this approach believes that
texts help the readers to process and
release their emotions.
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MYTHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
explores the artist’s common humanity by
tracing how the individual imagination uses
myths and symbols common to different
cultures and epochs. One key concept in
mythological criticism is the archetype, “a
symbol, character, situation, or image that
evokes a deep universal response.”
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MYTHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
According to Carl Jung, all individuals
share a “collective unconscious” , a set of
primal memories common to the human
race, existing below each person’s
conscious mind.
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QUIZ
PERFORMACE TASK abc

The students will work in

three and answer in ½
crosswise.
Using these known Movies or
Cartoon series, the students
Mulan
are going to investigate on
Up
which literary approach to
Tangled
use providing research
Demon Slayer
evidences.
All the bright places
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