LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
|
|
|
Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
|
|
|
Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
|
|
|
Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts.
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Traditional literary criticism focuses on the author’s biographical information and how it influences the work. Formalism/New Criticism does the opposite as it derives meaning solely from the individual text.
Detailed explanation-2: -Traditional literary criticism tends not to focus on a particular aspect of (or approach to) a literary text in quite the same manner that literary theory usually does. Literary theory proposes particular, systematic approaches to literary texts that impose a particular line of intellectual reasoning to it.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are many types of literary criticism. Some of the more common are traditional criticism, sociological criticism, new criticism, reader-response criticism, Feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, and media criticism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of some types of literary criticism are: Biographical. Comparative. Ethical.