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Literary Criticism

Critical Approaches to Literature By Rachel Castonguay and Caity Edwards. Literary Criticism. Highlights interactions between reader and text Sometimes paired with Psychoanalytical and Historical Focuses on reader’s feelings and thoughts NOT guided by the text Encourages active reading.

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Literary Criticism

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  1. Critical Approaches to Literature By Rachel Castonguay and Caity Edwards Literary Criticism

  2. Highlights interactions between reader and text • Sometimes paired with Psychoanalytical and Historical • Focuses on reader’s feelings and thoughts • NOT guided by the text • Encourages active reading Reader’s Response

  3. Reflects a concern with the time period in which the text was written • Often paired with biographical information of author • Compares social and ideological aspects of today to those of the text’s time period • Creates a more unbiased perspective New Historicism

  4. Originally applied to linguistic and literary matters in Western Literature • Associating man with general humanity places women in inferior position in society • Argues for a feminine language and writing • Has become a global perspective Feminist

  5. Argues that literature has little to no connection with author’s life/time period • All analysis must be based entirely on words within text • Emphasizes language and literary elements • rhyme, meter, alliteration, plot, point of view, etc. New Criticism

  6. Aims to discover workings of human mind • Three concepts of Freud and the unconscious • the dominance of the unconscious mind over the conscious • the expression of the unconscious mind through symbols (often in dreams) • sexuality as a powerful force for motivating human behavior • Can apply to author/text or reader/text relations Psychoanalytical

  7. OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,--Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!--It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood;Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,And smooth as monumental alabaster.Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume. When I have pluck'd the rose,I cannot give it vital growth again.It must needs wither: I'll smell it on the tree. Kissing her Ah balmy breath, that dost almost persuadeJustice to break her sword! One more, one more.Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,And love thee after. One more, and this the last:So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep,But they are cruel tears: this sorrow's heavenly;It strikes where it doth love. She wakes. Act V scene II

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