LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Detailed explanation-1: -structuralist. 2. It refers to critical approaches in literature that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a text.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a part of modern literary criticism, prosody is concerned with the study of rhythm and sound effects as they occur in verse and with the various descriptive, historical, and theoretical approaches to the study of these structures.
Detailed explanation-3: -A strictly formalist critic would, for example, approach The Great Gatsby as a structure of words, ignoring the details of Fitzgerald’s life and the social and historical contexts of the novel.
Detailed explanation-4: -A formalist critic examines the form of the work as a whole, the form of each individual part of the text (the individual scenes and chapters), the characters, the settings, the tone, the point of view, the diction, and all other elements of the text which join to make it a single text.
Detailed explanation-5: -Cite examples on how the form, diction, and unity operate together to develop a theme. Observe unity, emphasis and coherence in detailing your examples. Focus on the literary elements rather than the plot or sequence of the story or the stanza of the poem. 03-Jul-2016