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Critique

is a technique that aims


to study, discuss,
evaluate, and interpret
literary works.
Parts of Critique
A. Introduction
B. Body (analysis: textual
analysis & personal reading)
C. Summary
• Introduction is one of the
parts of a literary critique that
contains the title and author
of the text read.
• Analysis is the part of a literary
critique where the writer expresses
what they like about the text and
provides their interpretation and
evaluation of the story.
• Summary is the part of a
literary critique that
summarizes the story using
the writer's own words.
Approaches
A. Moralist Approach
B. Marxist Approach
C. Historical Approach
D. Reader-Response Approach
E. Feminist Approach
Moralist Approach
• Moralist involves examining how
a text deals with the issue at its
center. A literary text is expected to
reinforce traditionally held moral
values.
Moralist Approach
• Moralist evaluates, "Does
the work seem to build a
positive or negative
influence on its readers?"
Moralist Approach
• Moralist explores, "How
does the text play out a
given ethical principle?"
Marxist Approach
• Marxist examines how the
text represents and treats
the power dynamics
between social classes.
Marxist Approach
• Marxist examines, "How
do characters of different
social classes interact or
conflict?"
Marxist Approach
• Marxist asks, "What
social class does the work
supposedly represent?"
Historical Approach
• Historical assumes that a work is
influenced by the culture and era
that created it. A text is viewed as a
sort of "time capsule" that captures
some aspect of its historical roots.
Historical Approach
• Historical considers, "Have
any of the words in the text
changed meanings since
the text was written?"
Historical Approach
• Historical considers, "Does the
presentation in the work support
or condemn a particular event or
leading political figures of its time?
Can the work be seen to do both?"
Reader-Response Approach
• Reader-response understands the
text in terms of its personal
significance to the reader, rather
than through external principles or
ways of interpretation.
Reader-Response Approach
• Reader-Response asks, "What
does the text have to do with
you, personally, including your
past, present, and future?"
Reader-Response Approach
• Reader-Response explores,
"What did the text do well, and
what did it do poorly? Was it an
enjoyable text as a piece of
entertainment or a work of art?"
Feminist Approach
• Feminist focuses on the dynamics
between genders in a text. It
identifies and challenges the ways
in which women are marginalized in
a patriarchal society.
Feminist Approach
• Feminist investigates,
"How is the relationship
between men and women
portrayed in the text?"
Feminist Approach
• Feminist analyzes, "What does
the text reveal about the
economic, social, psychological,
and political workings of
patriarchy?"
Formalist/Structuralist Approach

• Formalist/Structuralist is
an approach that mainly
deals with the structure of a
particular text.
Formalist/Structuralist Approach

• Formalist investigates,
"How are the various
elements of the work
interconnected?"
Formalist/Structuralist Approach

• Formalist asks, "Is there a


central passage in the text
that can be pointed to as
summing up the work?"
Formalist/Structuralist Approach

• Formalist examines, "How


do the parts of the text
work together to make an
inseparable whole?"
Formalist/Structuralist Approach
• Structuralist asks, "What
common patterns exist within
the work that are also present in
other literary compositions?"

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