Traditional literary criticism is an approach to analyzing and interpreting literature that has been used for centuries. It evaluates an author's biographical information and cultural context to understand their work and preserve literary tradition. Some common traditional approaches include historical-biographical criticism, moral-philosophical criticism, sociological criticism, and psychoanalytic criticism. Traditional literary criticism aims to understand literature, appreciate an author's intentions, and explore universal themes.
Traditional literary criticism is an approach to analyzing and interpreting literature that has been used for centuries. It evaluates an author's biographical information and cultural context to understand their work and preserve literary tradition. Some common traditional approaches include historical-biographical criticism, moral-philosophical criticism, sociological criticism, and psychoanalytic criticism. Traditional literary criticism aims to understand literature, appreciate an author's intentions, and explore universal themes.
Traditional literary criticism is an approach to analyzing and interpreting literature that has been used for centuries. It evaluates an author's biographical information and cultural context to understand their work and preserve literary tradition. Some common traditional approaches include historical-biographical criticism, moral-philosophical criticism, sociological criticism, and psychoanalytic criticism. Traditional literary criticism aims to understand literature, appreciate an author's intentions, and explore universal themes.
Traditional literary criticism is an approach to analyzing and interpreting literature that has been used for centuries. It evaluates an author's biographical information and cultural context to understand their work and preserve literary tradition. Some common traditional approaches include historical-biographical criticism, moral-philosophical criticism, sociological criticism, and psychoanalytic criticism. Traditional literary criticism aims to understand literature, appreciate an author's intentions, and explore universal themes.
LITERARY CRITICISM Discussant: crisa mae rellama lhyca napase WHAT IS TRADITIONAL LITERARY CRITICISM?
Traditional literary criticism is an
approach to the analysis and interpretation of literature that has been practiced for centuries. It evaluates an author’s biographical information; their culture, background, and history. PURPOSE OF TRADITIONAL LITERARY CRITICISM TRADITIONAL APPROACHES IN LITERARY CRITICISM
Understand and appreciate Literature Historical-Biographical
Moral-Philosophical Preserve literary tradition Sociological criticism Uncover author intentions Psychoanalytic criticism Explore universal themes Practical Criticism Formalism Reader-response New Criticism Post-structuralism Feminist criticism APPROACHES Historical-biographical Moral-philosophical critics see works as the critics believed that the larger reflection of an author’s purpose of literature is to life and times. teach morality and to probe it is believed that it is philosophical issues. necessary to know about evaluate literary works based the author and political, on the moral statements and economical, and judgements sociological context of the characters and author’s his/her times in order to express throughout the literary understand his/her works. text. APPROACHES Sociological criticism Psychoanalytic criticism evaluates literature based examines literature based on on it’s relationship to psychological desires and society. neuroses of the characters examines the author’s within a particular piece of status in their society as literature well as the effect that the literary work had on its audience within the society. APPROACHES Practical criticism Formalism this study literature compels reader’s to judge the encourages reader’s to artistic merit of literature by examine the text without examining formal elements, regard to any outside like language and technical context-like the author, skills. the date and place of writing, or any other contextual information that may enlighten the reader. APPROACHES
Reader-response New criticism
criticism is rooted in the focused on examining the belief that the reader’s formal and structural elements reaction to or of literature, as opposed to interpretation of a text is a the emotional or moral valuable source of critical elements. study as the text itself. APPROACHES Post-Structuralism Feminist criticism abandoned ideas of in the mid-twentieth century, formal and structural literary critics began looking cohesion, questioning any to gender studies for new assumed universal truths modes of literary criticism. as reliant on the social structure that influenced them. Roland Barthes- one of the writer who shaped post- structuralism, the father of semiotics. THANK YOU!