Critical

Approaches in
Writing a
Critique

Submitted by: Jilian A. Yungod

Grade 12- Hume
Submitted to: Mr. Marlon C Rule
Critique Paper

- A genre of Academic Writing.

- Briefly and critically summarizes and evaluate a word and concept.
- Used for carefully analyze a variety of works.
- Uses a formal, academic writing style and has clear structure.
- Its body contains the summary of the subject and the detailed
evaluation about it.
- Its Purpose is to gauge the usefulness or impact of a work in a field.

Criticize- To judge or to evaluate something.

Critique- The paper of essay, the product of criticizing.

Critic- The person doing the criticism.

Critical Approaches in Writing a Critique Paper

● Formalist Criticism (Formalism)

- Focused on form and structure of a particular text.
- Does not take any outside influence into consideration.
- Focused on how elements of a certain text work together in order to
develop certain effects.

● Reader-response Criticism
- Concerned with the reviewer’s reaction as an audience of literary work.
- Claims that the reader’s role cannot be separated from the
understanding of the work.
- Claims that the text does not have meaning until the reader reads and
interprets it.
- Focused on the message of the text.

● Feminist Criticism (Criticism)

- Focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of
socio-cultural, psychological and economic oppression.
- Tends to reveal the patriarchal aspects of our culture.
- Based on how men and women presented.
● Marxist Criticism (Marxism)
- Concerned with the differences between economic classes.
- Attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of people’s experience is
the socio-economic system.

● Historical Criticism
- To understand a literary work by exploring the social, cultural, and
intellectual context that produced it, including the author’s background
and the period it was written in.
- It seeks to grasp how the work impacted its original audience.

● Structuralism
- Believes that human behavior is influenced by social, cultural, and
psychological structure.
- It emphasizes understanding things within larger contexts rather than
in isolation.

● Gender Criticism
- Examines how sexual identity influence the creation and reception of
literary works.
- Originally an offshoot of feminist movements, gender criticism today
includes a number of approaches, including the so-called “masculinist”
approach.
- The bulk of gender criticism, however, is feminist and takes as a
central precept that the patriarchal attitudes that have dominated
western thought have resulted, consciously or unconsciously in
literature “full of unexamined ‘male produced ‘ assumptions”.