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Remapping of Philippine Literature Through Critism

1) Literary criticism plays a vital role in shaping culture and has defined different historical eras through tendencies like romanticism and humanism. 2) Criticism involves reasoned analysis of literary texts and their themes within cultural and historical contexts in order to interpret meaning, judge quality, and potentially inspire new ideas or societal changes. 3) Philippine literary theory seeks to develop ideas independent of dominant Western frameworks and within decolonized spaces, examining local literature from pre-colonial to post-colonial periods.

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Remapping of Philippine Literature Through Critism

1) Literary criticism plays a vital role in shaping culture and has defined different historical eras through tendencies like romanticism and humanism. 2) Criticism involves reasoned analysis of literary texts and their themes within cultural and historical contexts in order to interpret meaning, judge quality, and potentially inspire new ideas or societal changes. 3) Philippine literary theory seeks to develop ideas independent of dominant Western frameworks and within decolonized spaces, examining local literature from pre-colonial to post-colonial periods.

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Remapping of Philippine

Literature Through
Critism
PAPER LITERARY
CRITICISM
• Criticism plays a vital role not only in literature but in the culture
itself.
• It has set the mode for certain eras and their particular tendencies:
The Victorian Era and its romanticism, the Renaissance and its
humanistic people, and the postmodern era and experimentation with
art, to cite a few examples.
• Criticism, often intertwining both literary and cultural, has set the
mode for most of the culture that has been lived before you were born
and the culture you will be living in the future.
• Literary Criticism is the“ reasoned” consideration or analysis of literary
texts and their themes or issues. It may also been argument about a literary
work, which will be proven using the text and the culture or context the text
was written in or for.

• There is one general agreements among critics, however, when it


comes to any kind of critique: it has to be“ practical” . Criticism is meant
to see what has not been seen before, to say what has not been said
before, and to change what needs to be changed. It interprets meaning
in text and judges the text’s quality so that it may bring forth new ideas,
new realizations, and necessary changes in society.
•One of the earliest works of criticism is Plato’s argument against the
consequences of poetic inspiration in his writing entitled “The Republic”.
Up until now, this text is used to guide critics on how a text can be
interpreted or what modes of interpretation can be done.
FUNCTIONS OF
LITERARY CRITICISM
1) The functions of literary criticism vary depending on the text itself
or the context where it is being performed.
2) Literary Criticism may be a simple review of books that you often
read online or in local newspapers, or a systematic theoretical
discussion of a story’s impact on society.
3) Another function of literary criticism is to reevaluate any give text.
4) Literary criticism may also be used to invoke discussions, reassess
society, and redefine culture based on a literary text.
5) It is common for criticism to dip its toes into social and political
arguments, especially if the literary work is social or political in
nature.
The Other Other: Towards a Postcolonial Poetics
By Isagani R. Cruz
- Recent interest in colonial discourse, precipitated by Edward Said’s critique
of orientalism. Brought home the ethonocentricity of much Western
thought.
- Western literary theory, has to break free of the prison house of Western
language and literatures.
- American or British critics will look beyond their shores to France and
Germany or Russia for “foreign” theories, preferring familiar European to
“strange” non-Western ideas.
- Literary texts used to generate or to illustrate modern Western literary
theories tend to have been written in Western languages, classical or
modern.
- Contemporary Filipino theories presumably work in decolonized space
Philippine literature (pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial).
- Philippine literary theory today derives from
unproblematized dominant western critical discourse
that is the subject of deconstruction by marginalized
emergent Western critics themselves.
- Marginalization, said to be not completely a
function of geography, but also a function of
intellectual and institutional power.
- Philippine literary theory, in other words has
become the other other of Western literary theory.
WRITING A CRITICAL

•thismeans that literary criticism does not solely look


at a text to see if it has a message to say to the reader
and whether this message is good or As they say,
how can you force your readers to see what is not
there in the first place? The point here is to introduce
your idea or discovery about a literary selection to
the class, which paper? It is preferred if you choose
the same literary selection which you were asked to
research on in Modules 1 and 2.
The idea is to hook your readers so that
they will be more willing to listen to your
idea. After this, quickly state as a way of
sign posting (or letting the reader know
what you are going to write about in your
paper) what your concept is and how it is
related to the literary text. The body of
your essay must try to discuss the
relation of your idea with the literary
text.
How did the literary text show you
or enlighten you about your idea? If
you need to quote from the literary
text that you have chosen, do so
carefully by choosing which are
essential to develop your argument.
You may also want to conclude by
referencing your introduction (the
joke, anecdote, or quotation), so
that it "sandwiches" your idea and
is more appealing to the readers.
THANK YOU!!

-Aj Mae S. Bilbao

-Xyrza Naga

-Christine Santillan

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