ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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LITERATURE QUESTIONS

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A work of criticism that considers how the author’s childhood trauma influenced his characters would be an example of:
A
psychoanalytic criticism.
B
Marxist criticism.
C
New Criticism.
D
structuralism.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychoanalytical literary criticism, on one level, concerns itself with dreams, for dreams are a reflection of the unconscious psychological states of dreamers. Freud, for example, contends that dreams are “the guardians of sleep” where they become “disguised fulfillments of repressed wishes.”Sigmund Freud.

Detailed explanation-2: -Psychoanalytic criticism is a form of applied psychoanalysis, a science concerned with the interaction between conscious and unconscious processes and with the laws of mental functioning.

Detailed explanation-3: -An example showing a psychoanalytic focus on literary characters is Frederick Crews’s reading in The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes (1966). Frederick Crews, The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).

Detailed explanation-4: -Which type of theory is psychoanalytic criticism and why? It is most likely expressive because it focuses on the motivations and fears of the author.

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