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LITERARY CRITICISM
MR. CHUNG
LANGUAGE ARTS
VALENCIA H.S.
Agenda
 TKAM Articles
 TKAM Literary Criticism
 TKAM Objective Final
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Objective
 Begin understanding of
literary criticism
 Identify & apply literary
theories to TKAM
 Prepare for analysis &
evaluation of TKAM
Standards
Literary Criticism 3.11
 Evaluate the aesthetic
qualities of style,
 including the impact of diction and figurative
language on tone, mood, and theme,
 using the terminology of
literary criticism.
(Aesthetic approach)
Standards
Literary Criticism 3.12
 Analyze the way in which a
work of literature is
related to the themes and
issues of its historical
period. (Historical approach)
Standards
Literary Response and Analysis 3.5c.
 Evaluate the philosophical,
political, religious, ethical,
and social influences of the
historical period that
shaped the characters,
plots, and settings.
KWL:
 WHAT I THINK
I KNOW…
 WHAT I WANT
TO KNOW…
Literary Criticism
TOPIC/CONCEPT/FACT/SKILL
Literary Criticism
DEFINITION
 An informed, written
analysis & evaluation
of a work of literature
 Based on a “literary
theory”
[http://wordnet.princeton.edu/]
[Critical Encounters, Deborah Appleman]
ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS
 Literary Theories--a means to
understand the various ways
people read & connect with
texts.
 “lenses” through which we can
see texts
 Usually leads to a whole new
perspective
EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Archetypal Criticism
 Symbols, motifs, myths,
characters, situations
EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Formalism [New Criticism,
Structuralism]
 The work itself the focus
 No need for context
 Aesthetics
 Language, interactions of words,
figures of speech, & symbols
EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Historical Criticism
 The work a reflection of the
author’s (or characters’) life &
times
 Necessary to know about the
author & the political,
economical, & sociological
context
 Can it be universal or contextual?
EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Reader-Response Criticism
 Reader’s role in the
development of
interpretation
 Reader creates meaning
 Subjectivity?
EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Mimetic
 Real world reality?
 Morality, norms, values
Intertextual
 Comparing the work with
other literature
 Breadth
POLITICAL EXAMPLES
[Most Common]
Feminist Criticism
 Impact of gender on writing
& reading
 Critique of patriarchal
society: cultural & economic
“disabilities”
POLITICAL EXAMPLES
[Most Common]
Marxist Criticism
 Relationships between the
socio-economic classes
 Economic & cultural
theories of Karl Marx &
Friedrich Engels
 Focus: power & money in lit
EXAMPLES [Most Common, Abstract]
Deconstruction
 Text is focus, but no
inherent meaning
EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Psychological &
Psychoanalytic Criticism
 Psychological motivations
of the characters [or of the
author]
 Freud, Jung
OVERVIEW
LITERARY CRITICISM
AUTHOR’S
WORLD
AUTHOR’S
LIFE
Psychological
Historical,
Biographical
Mimetic
BEYOND
THE
WORLD
Archetypal
REAL
WORLD
LITERARY
WORK
Formalist
OTHER
LITERATURE
Intertextual
[Structuralism],
DeconstructionAUDIENCE
Feminist,
Marxist, etc.
ReaderResponse
VARIATIONS
1930-1960
Alabama
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper
Lee
MAD DOG
Connector
BEYOND
THE
WORLD
2007
Hero; Scapegoat
Feminine Voice;
Power Structure
TKAM
AESTHETIC;
TLA Linguist
HISTORICAL;
TLA…
•Historian
•Sociologist
•Geographer
OTHER
LITERATURE
TKAM FILM
A Separate Peace;
Of Mice and Men
PIB/H
CONNECTIONS
VARIATIONS
 ATTICUS FINCH & THE MAD DOG
 HOLLYWOOD & RACE
 LEE’S TRAGIC VISION
 SECRET COURTS OF MEN’S HEARTS
 FEMALE VOICE…NARRATIVE STRATS
REVIEW
 informed, written
analysis & evaluation
of a work of literature
 literary theory as a
lens
APPLICATION/SUMMARY
TAKE HOME ESSAY
3-5 pages, wordprocessed
MLA style
Due: FRIDAY, Nov. 9
APPLICATION/SUMMARY
TOPIC [open]
Approach…
APPLICATION
ATTICUS FINCH & THE MAD DOG
 TOPICS:
 SYMBOLISM
 ARCHETYPES
 PSYCHOLOGICAL
APPLICATION
HOLLYWOOD & RACE
 TOPICS
 COMPARE/CONTRAST
 INTERTEXTUAL
 A SEPARATE PEACE
 SOUTHERN AUTHORS SHORT
STORIES
 MIMETIC
APPLICATION
LEE’S TRAGIC VISION
 TOPICS
 HISTORICAL
 PSYCHOLOGICAL
 AESTHETICAL
APPLICATION
SECRET COURTS OF MEN’S HEARTS
 TOPICS
 POWER STRUCTURE
[MARXIST]
 MORES [MORALS], VALUES
 SOCIAL CODES
APPLICATION
FEMALE VOICE…NARRATIVE STRATS
 TOPICS
 AESTHETICAL APPROACH
 INTERTEXTUAL:
COMPARE/CONTRAST FILM
TO TEXT
 FEMINIST
WORKS CITED
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern
Critical Interpretations:
Harper Lee’s To Kill a
Mockingbird. Philadelphia,
PA: Chelsea House
Publisher, 1999.
WORKS CITED
Appleman, Deborah. Critical Encounters in High
School English. New York: Teachers College
Press, 2000.
WordNet: A Lexical Database for the English
Language. 2006. Cognitive Science
Laboratory at Princeton University. 01 Nov
2007. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/.
Burris, Skylar. Literary Criticism: An Overview of
Approaches. 2005. University of Texas at
Brownsville. 01 Nov 2007.
http://www.literatureclassics.com/ancientpaths/liccrit.html .