ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL -examine incidents in the lives of the authors

PURPOSES REVIEWER and try to identify events settings, objectives, building

Critique
-careful judgment in which you shape your
opinion about the strengths and weaknesses of a piece.
Types
Formalism
-form of a literary work to determine it’s
moving, focusing on literary elements and how they
work to create meaning.
people etc. found in the novels with historical sources.
Historical Criticism
-seeks to understand a literary work by
investing the social, cultural, and intellectual context
that produced it
-context that necessarily includes the artist’s
biography and milieu.

>focus on the elements, structure and

principles that a govern a certain text.

Feminism

-emphasizes on the roles, positions, and

influences of women within primary text.

Critical Approaches

Formalism (Formalist Criticism)

-claims that literary works have intrinsic

properties and treats each work as a distinct work of
art

Formalist = Text’s Form

Feminist Criticism

-how literature presents women as subject of

socio-political, psychological, and economic
oppression.

-tends to reveal the patriarchal aspects of our

culture in the worth of women in the society.

Feminism = Female

Marxist Criticism

-differences between economic classes.

-attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of

people’s expression is the socio-economic system.

Marxism = Social Classes

Reader-Response Criticism

-reviewer’s reaction as an audience of a literary

work.

-a text does not have meaning until the readers

reads and interprets it. Criticism is focused on the
message of the text.

Reader’s Understanding of the text

Biographical Criticism

-explicating the literary work by using insight

provided by knowledge of the author’s life.