• CRITICISM PHILOSOPHY o SECTION A: INTRODUCTION Not too many people can listen none defensively‚ or none antagonistically‚ to criticism. And very few of those who listen admit it when they see that they are wrong. The thing is‚ we think that admission of guilt‚ or of being wrong‚ or that we have made a mistake‚ is a sign of weakness. Yet true failure is repeatedly refusing to see your faults. Learning to listen to criticism is a life skill that we’d all do well to master. It is about keeping
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Jeremy Jeon Mrs. Rowe English 1H 17 August 2013 The literature is a criticism of life. Arnold is correct in says that literature is a criticism of life because personally I think that it is simply a portrayal of life’s situations. Also I think that Literature is often a mirror for what is going on in society and a vehicle to change that which we don’t like. Many books today use their pages to put forth social commentary. They reflect the issues of the time‚ including
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Grace Lear Ms. Joan Richmond English 2261 17 Feb. 2013 New Criticism: A Focused Summary New criticism is a type of literary theory that focuses on the close reading of literature and how the literature functions as the object it’s meant to be. No external influences are to be taken into consideration‚ strictly the writing itself. This movement emphasizes the text in literature and explains the writers meaning to the reader. The author’s intention‚ excluding historical and cultural context
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LITERARY CRITICISM LITERATURE • What is literature? Literate/ literacy - able to read/write Origin- from Latin “litteratura” (letter) • literature with the small ‘l’ Literature - piece of writing/printed information on a particular subject • literature with the big ‘L’ Literature - pieces of writing that are valued as works of art eg. Novels‚ plays‚ poems (contrast to technical books/ scientific/ academic writings) • Literary - connected with literature
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and New Criticism “Formalism” is‚ as the name implies‚ an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. The work of the Formalists had a general impact on later developments in “Structuralism” and other theories of narrative. “Formalism‚” like “Structuralism‚” sought to place the study of literature on a scientific basis through objective analysis of the motifs‚ devices‚ techniques‚ and other “functions” that comprise the literary work. The
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New Criticism VS Reader-Response Criticism What is more accurate‚ new criticism or reader response criticism? The answer is neither‚ seeing as both styles of critic views and analyzes the topic at hand and gives feedback. Though both styles offer feedback‚ they are different forms of feedback entirely. New criticism involves focusing on the material at hand‚ and not what it was meant to be perceived as‚ to judge the topic by every measurable feature possible. Reader response criticism is when
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Literary Criticism Quiz 1. Explain the ego‚ id‚ and superego. 2. What does formalism analyze? 3. What does the philosophical approach evaluate? 4. What are the three stages of the quest as defined by the archetypal approach? Make sure you explain them: 5. What is the Oedipal Complex? 6. What constitutes the “tragic hero?” 7. What is the intentional fallacy? 8. On what basis do philosophical critics judge a work? 9. What
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Literature: A Criticism of Life Literature does not simply add to reality‚ but describes it. Matthew Arnold’s statement about literature being a “criticism of life” is right because literature teaches it talks about problems that the world faces daily‚ good moral lessons through criticism‚ and it shows the author commentary on things. Literature is used to express people’s feelings and thoughts. In some literature‚ it can be used to show what authors critique in this world‚ being either good or
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Introduction to literary theory Theory Kind of speculation‚ it’s analytical Interdisciplinary discourse (debate) with effects outside an original discipline (Culler) Critique of common sense‚ of concept taken as natural What is literature? Elusive term (always changing) Modern sense – 200 yrs old Prior to 1800 literature was „memorized“ not interpreted In fiction the relation of what speaker say to what authors think is always a mater of interpretation Dictionary: imaginative or creative
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LITERARY THEORY Misconceptions about theory: 1. Theory is difficult What is difficult however is the language because most of the theorists are French 2. theory is meaningless‚ pretentious jargon 3. that we are intellectually incapable of coping with it(i.e we are at fault) 4. We take everything as gospel truth; We should question What is literary theory? Theory is a coherent set of conceptual hypothetical and pragmatic principles forming the general frame of reference for a discipline
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