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    This document outlines four approaches to critiquing a work: formalism, feminism, reader-response criticism, and Marxist criticism. Formalism focuses on intrinsic properties of a work and interprets meaning from within the text. Feminism examines how a work presents issues of gender, oppression, and patriarchy. Reader-response criticism considers the reader's active role in constructing meaning. Marxist criticism analyzes representations and conflicts of social classes within a capitalist system.

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    This document outlines four approaches to critiquing a work: formalism, feminism, reader-response criticism, and Marxist criticism. Formalism focuses on intrinsic properties of a work and interprets meaning from within the text. Feminism examines how a work presents issues of gender, oppression, and patriarchy. Reader-response criticism considers the reader's active role in constructing meaning. Marxist criticism analyzes representations and conflicts of social classes within a capitalist system.

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    This document outlines four approaches to critiquing a work: formalism, feminism, reader-response criticism, and Marxist criticism. Formalism focuses on intrinsic properties of a work and interprets meaning from within the text. Feminism examines how a work presents issues of gender, oppression, and patriarchy. Reader-response criticism considers the reader's active role in constructing meaning. Marxist criticism analyzes representations and conflicts of social classes within a capitalist system.

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    CRITICAL APPROACHES IN

    WRITING A CRITIQUE
    There are various ways or standpoints by
    which you can analyze and critique a certain
    material. You can critique a material based on
    its technical aspects, its approach to gender,
    your reaction as the audience, or through its
    portrayal of class struggle and social structure.
    FORMALISM
    It claims that literary works contain intrinsic
    properties and treats each work as a distinct
    work of art. In short, it posits that the key to
    understanding a text is through the text
    itself; the historical context, the author, or
    any other external contexts are not necessary
    in interpreting the meaning.
    FOLLOWING ARE THE COMMON ASPECTS LOOKED INTO FORMALISM:

     Author’s techniques in resolving contradictions


    within the work
     Central passage that sums up the entirety of the work
     Contribution of parts and the work as a whole to its
    aesthetic quality
     Relationship of the form and the content
     Use of imagery to develop the symbols in the
    work
     Interconnectedness of various parts of the work
     Paradox, ambiguity, and irony in the work
     Unity in the work
    FEMINISM
    It focuses on how literature presents
    women as subjects of socio-political,
    psychological, and economic oppression. It
    also reveals how aspects of our culture are
    patriarchal, i.e., how our culture views men
    as superior and women as inferior.
    The common aspects looked into when using
    feminism are as follows:
     How culture determines gender

     How gender equality (or lack of it) is presented

    in the text
     How gender issues are presented in literary

    works and other aspects of human production


    and daily life
     How women are socially, politically,
    psychologically, and economically oppressed by
    patriarchy
     How patriarchal ideology is an overpowering
    presence
    READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
    It is concerned with the reviewer’s reaction as an
    audience of a work. This approach claims that the
    reader’s role cannot be separated from the
    understanding of the work; a text does not have
    meaning until the reader reads it and interprets it.
    Readers are therefore not passive and distant, but are
    active consumers of the material presented to them.
    The common aspects looked into when using reader
    response criticism are as follows:
     Interaction between the reader and the text in

    creating meaning
     The impact of the reader’s delivery of sounds and

    visuals on enhancing and changing meaning


    MARXIST CRITICISM
    It is concerned with differences between
    economic classes and implications of a capitalist
    system, such as the continuing conflicts between
    the working class and the elite. Hence, it attempts
    to reveal that the ultimate source of people’s
    experience is the socioeconomic system.
    The common aspects looked into when using
    Marxist criticism are as follows:
     Social class as represented in the work

     Social class of the writer/creator

     Social class of the characters

     Conflicts and interactions between economic

    classes

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