Literary Genres

Presented to: BSED-ENGLISH 3

Presented by: Via M. Bawingan
 LITERATURE GENRES

Examples:
News
 Open form
 Made of and close Examples: Reports
form Myths Journals
dialog and
 Relies on Fables Articles
set direction
 Designed to imagery, Novels Essays
figurative Short Stories Textbooks
be
language and Biographies
performed sounds Etc.
 DRAMA

 Drama is a story written to be performed by actors.

Although a drama is meant to be performed, one can also
read the script, or written version, and imagine the
action.
 POETRY

DEFINITION

KINDS OF
 Poetry is language POETRY/POEM
written with rhythm,
figurative language,
imagery, sound devices
and emotionally charged Concrete poem


language. Narrative Poem



Lyric Poem

 PROSE

DEFINITION
KINDS OF PROSE
PROSE is the ordinary .
form of written language. oFiction
oNon Fiction
 Prose imitates the
spoken language.
 KINDS OF
POETRY
CONCRETE NARRATIVE
LYRIC POEM
POEMS POEM
o Concrete Poem is .
one with a shape oNarrative Poem is
that suggests its a story told in
subject. verse. Lyric poem is a
o The poet oNarrative poems highly musical
arranges the verse that
letters, often have all the
punctuation, and elements of short expresses the
lines to create an stories, including observation and
image or picture, characters,
conflict, and plot feelings of a
on the page.
single speaker.
 KINDS OF PROSE

FICTION
NON FICTION
Examples:
Short Stories Examples:
 Legend Report
Fairy Tales Letters Personal Narrative
Folk Tales Memoirs
Memoirs
Novels
Letter
Short Stories
Article
Fables
Journal
Myth
Biographies
Etc.
 ELEMENTS OF
STORY

ELEMENTS OF STORY INCLUDE:

1. Setting
2. Characters
3. Plot
4. Point of view
5. Theme
6. Image
7. Symbol
LET’S TRY IT!
 IDENTIFY THE GENRES OF
THE GIVEN LITERARY PIECE.
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LITERARY
CRITICISM
Prepared by:

VIA M. BAWINGAN
Focus Questions

How do we study literature?

How do viewpoint and bias affect our
perception of reality?
Critical Approaches to the Study of
Literature

Critical Approaches are different perspectives we

consider when looking at a piece of literature.
They seek to give us answers to these questions, in
addition to aiding us in interpreting literature.
1. What do we read?
2. Why do we read?
3. How do we read?
Critical Approaches to Consider
1. Reader-Response Criticism
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3. Psychological/Psychoanalytic Criticism Microsoft Office

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4. Sociological Criticism Microsoft Office

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a. Marxist Criticism Microsoft Office

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b. Feminist/Gender Criticism Microsoft Office

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5. Biographical Criticism Microsoft Office

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6. New Historicist Criticism Microsoft Office

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1. The Reader-Response Approach
Reader-Response Criticism
- asserts that a great deal of meaning in a text lies
with how the reader responds to it.
 Focuses on the act of reading and how it affects
our perception of meaning in a text (how we feel at
the beginning vs. the end)
 Deals more with the process of creating meaning
and experiencing a text as we read. A text is an
experience, not an object.
 The text is a living thing that lives in the reader’s
imagination.

READER + READING SITUATION + TEXT =

MEANING
 1. The Reader-Response Approach
2 Important Ideas in Reader-Response
a. An individual reader’s
interpretation usually changes
over time.
b. Readers from different
generations and different time
periods interpret texts differently.

Ultimately… How do YOU do YOU

think it means?
 3. The Psychological/ Psychoanalytic
Approach

Psychological Criticism views a

text as a revelation of its author’s
mind and personality. It is based
on the work of Sigmund Freud.
 Also focuses on the hidden
motivations of literary characters
 Looks at literary characters as a
reflection of the writer
 4A. The Marxist Approach
Marxist Criticism
emphasizes economic and
social conditions. It is
based on the political theory
of Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels.
 Concerned with

understanding the role of

power, politics, and
money in literary texts
4A. The Marxist Approach
Marxist Criticism examines literature to see how
it reflects
1. The way in which dominant groups
(typically, the majority) exploit the
subordinate groups (typically, the minority)
2. The way in which people become alienated
from one another through power, money,
and politics
4B. The Feminist Approach
Feminist Criticism is concerned
with the role, position, and
influence of women in a literary
text.
 Asserts that most “literature”

throughout time has been written

by men, for men.
 Examines the way that the

female consciousness is depicted

by both male and female writers.
5. The Biographical Approach
Biographical Criticism argues
that we must take an
author’s life and
background into account
when we study a text.
5. The Biographical Approach
Three Benefits:
1. Facts about an author’s experience can help a
reader decide how to interpret a text.
2. A reader can better appreciate a text by knowing
a writer’s struggles or difficulties in creating that
text.
3. A reader can understand a writer’s preoccupation
by studying the way they apply and modify their
own life experiences in their works.
7. MYTHOLOGICAL-
ARCHETYPAL
 It probe the work if it contain mythic elements/ patterns such as
rebirth, fertility, quest, journey or struggle and return of the hero?
 The archetypal characters, images or symbols such as the great
mother, the wise old man, the sea or the seasons.
 The presence of Jungian archetype such as shadow, persona, or
anima, growth and individuation.
REMEMBER…
 We will never look at a text STRICTLY
from one standpoint or another, ignoring
all other views. That is antithetical to
what we are trying to do.
 We should always keep our focus on the

text and use these critical approaches to

clarify our understanding of a text and
develop an interpretation of it.
REFERENCES:
 
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/reso
urce/722/1/