ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Such analysis may be based on a variety of critical approaches or movements, e.g. archetypal criticism, cultural criticism, feminist criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, Marxist Criticism, New Criticism (formalism/structuralism), New Historicism, post-structuralism, and reader-response criticism.

Detailed explanation-3: -To analyze one literary work, more than one approach can be applied. This article is an example of analyzing a poem, Mattew Arnold’s Dover Beach from three different critical positions, the formalist, the sociological, and psychoanalytical.

Detailed explanation-4: -(1) The Historical / Biographical Approach. (2) The Moral / Philosophical Approach. (3) Formalism / New Criticism. (4) Psychological Criticism. (5) The Mythological / Archetypal / Symbolic Critical Approach. (6) The Feminist Approach. More items •26-Sept-2018