LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Gender Criticism
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Marxist Criticism
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Psychoanalytic Criticism
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New American Criticism
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Detailed explanation-1: -New Historicist Criticism argues that every literary work is a product of its time and its world. New Historicism: Provides background information necessary to understand how literary texts were perceived in their time. Shows how literary texts reflect ideas and attitudes of the time in which they were written.
Detailed explanation-2: -Biographical Criticism argues that we must take an author’s life and background into account when we study a text.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Critical Literary Lens influences how you look at a work. A great example that is often used, is the idea of putting on a pair of glasses, and the glasses affecting how you view your surroundings.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.