LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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What social classes do I see represented in the text?
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Why did the author break the chapters where they did?
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Does the main character seem similar to other main characters in several other novels I’ve read?
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What was going on in the world during the time when the author published the book?
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Detailed explanation-1: -What question might someone doing an archetypal criticism ask? What social classes do I see represented in the text? Why did the author break the chapters where they did? Does the main character seem similar to other main characters in several other novels I’ve read?
Detailed explanation-2: -The archetypal, or myth, critic asks these questions: What mythic elements or archetypal patterns-themes, characters, settings, symbols, imagery, plots, genres, or versions of the hero’s quest-are employed in this literary work? What do they contribute to the work as a whole?
Detailed explanation-3: -Biographical Approach: Focuses on connection of work to author’s personal experiences. What aspects of the author’s personal life are relevant to this story? Which of the author’s stated beliefs are reflected in the work? Does the writer challenge or support the values of her contemporaries?
Detailed explanation-4: -Archetypal criticism is concerned with the way cycles and reiterating patterns of tradition, culture, inborn images, and beliefs affect literary works. It operates with the idea that certain symbols represent the same ideas no matter the time or place.
Detailed explanation-5: -Archetypal literary criticism is a type of analytical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes (from the Greek archē, “beginning", and typos, “imprint") in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary works.