Literary Criticism

1. Author’s Biography - John Steinbeck, The Pearl

2. Historical Context/Background (New Historicism), Anton Chekov, The Lottery Ticket

3. Rhetorical and Literary Devices – Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream Speech

4. Character Development Timeline - Student select animé or manga

5. Feminist Critique – patriarchy and hegemonic masculinities,

6. Marxist Critique - Morley Callaghan, A Cap for Steve

7. Critical Race Theory - Nina Simone, Mississippi Damn

8. Intersectionality - Kate Chopin, Desirée’s Baby

9. Institutional Critique:

a) Religion - James Joyce, Eveline

b) Education - John Steinbeck, The Pearl

c) Government - Green Day, Holiday

d) Economy – capitalism, D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking Horse Winner, F. Scott

Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

e) Societal expectations -

f) Cultural expectations

g) Military

10. Post-modern Critique/Reader Response Critique

11. Formalism - Famous Quotes and close reading of text - Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet,

Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear

12. Psychological Analysis – Freud, Oedipus and other Greek mythology

13. Archetypical Analysis – Jung, Harry Potter

 a) The Sage

b) The Innocent

c) The Explorer

d) The Ruler

e) The Creator

f) The Caregiver

g) The Magician

h) The Hero

i) The Rebel

j) The Lover

k) The Jester

l) The Orphan

Retrieved from: https://exploringyourmind.com/twelve-jungian-archetypes/

14. Post-colonial critique – Dominance of White Eurocentric narratives that have

traditionally excluded voices from women, people of colour, physically and mentally

challenged, LGBTQ and Aboriginals.

15. Anatomy of Criticism – Northrop Frye’s Symbolic Phases

a) Literal/descriptive (motifs and signs)

b) Formal (image)

c) Mythical (archetype)

d) Anagogic (monad)

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16. Post-structuralism and Deconstructionism - Narratives

17. Greek Mythology, Shakespeare and other famous texts or poetry

18. Thoughts from other disciplines - opposite effect of the intended goal

19. Global philosophy

20. Queer theory