LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Archetypal Criticism
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Formalist Criticism
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Biographical Criticism
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Reader Response Criticism
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Detailed explanation-1: -For example, in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), the monster doesn’t exist, so to speak, until the reader reads Frankenstein and reanimates it to life, becoming a co-creator of the text. Thus, the purpose of a reading response is examining, explaining, and defending your personal reaction to a text.
Detailed explanation-2: -A formalist criticism will focus on form, diction, and unity in the work of literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -One can sort Reader Response theorists into three groups: those who focus upon the individual reader’s experience (“individualists”); those who conduct psychological experiments on a defined set of readers (“experimenters”); and those, who assume a fairly uniform response by all readers (“uniformists”).
Detailed explanation-4: -[from the ENGL 0310 Syllabus] “A reader response asks the reader [you] to examine, explain and defend her/his personal reaction to a reading. You will be asked to explore why you like or dislike the reading, explain whether you agree or disagree with the author, identify the reading’s purpose, and critique the text.