ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

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This approach can turn a work into little more than a case study, neglecting to view it as a piece of art. Critics sometimes attempt to diagnose long dead authors based on their works, which is perhaps not the best evidence of their psychology. Critics tend to see sex in everything, exaggerating this aspect of literature. What approach possess this disadvantage?
A
Moral/Philosophical
B
Psychological
C
Formalism/New Criticism
D
Historical/Biographical
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Disadvantages: Psychological criticism can turn a work into little more than a psychological case study, neglecting to view it as a piece of art. Critics sometimes attempt to diagnose long dead authors based on their works, which is perhaps not the best evidence of their psychology.

Detailed explanation-2: -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".

Detailed explanation-3: -Historical / Biographical Approach: Definition: Historical / Biographical critics see works as the reflection of an author’s life and times (or of the characters’ life and times).

Detailed explanation-4: -This slide contains the topic on how to use appropriate critical approaches in writing a critique such as formalism, feminism, reader-response criticism and Marxist criticism (Marxism).

Detailed explanation-5: -Subjective Reader Response Theory – Literary Theory and Criticism.

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