LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Psychoanalytic Criticism
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New American Criticism
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Formalist Criticism
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Archetypal Criticism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Biographical Criticism argues that we must take an author’s life and background into account when we study a text. Three Benefits: Facts about an author’s experience can help a reader decide how to interpret a text.
Detailed explanation-2: -Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or “audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sociological criticism argues that social contexts (the social environment) must be considered when analyzing a text.
Detailed explanation-4: -Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism, a critical method that “sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a reflection of its author’s life and times".